Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more overt forms of gendered hate have jumped from obscure internet forums into the mainstream, ...

BERLIN - A series of closely fought elections, the war in Gaza and deepening political polarisation helped drive the number of politically motivated crimes in Germany to a record high i n 2024 ...

Elections, Gaza, Polarisation Drive Political Crime to Record High in Germany By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -A series of closely fought elections, the war in Gaza and deepening political ...

A series of closely fought elections, the war in Gaza and deepening political polarisation helped drive the number of politically motivated crimes in Germany to a record high last year, with an ...

A.M. Edition for May 6. Germany enters a period of political uncertainty as Friedrich Merz, winner of the recent election, fails to secure enough support in a first-round vote in parliament to be ...

In a seismic shift, the country’s electoral map — large swathes of which had colored SPD red in the 2021 election — turned black, for Merz’s conservatives, in the West. But the East colored ...

The AfD won 36.2% of the vote in eastern Germany, and 18% in the west (see map). While it has got votes in almost every constituency in this election, the party has traditionally enjoyed greater ...

The political system in Germany loves consensus and has a weakness for the lowest common denominator. Sunday's result, however, is a wake-up call for Germany if the Federal Republic is to regain ...

Not everywhere, though. In vast swaths of the country’s east, the far-right party won upward of 40 percent of the vote, flooding the electoral map an electric shade of blue.

Germany is poised for a shakeup in government after the country’s mainstream conservatives won its national election on Sunday, two months after outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence ...

Germany’s national election on Feb. 23, 2025, the 20th since the Federal Republic’s establishment in 1949, saw a significant victory for right-wing groups. However, Germany’s Evangelical ...