News, analysis, opinion and polling data on the German federal election in February 2025. An interactive graphic failed to load. This is most likely due to being offline or JavaScript being ...

Auto supplier Continental plans to shutter one plant in Germany, as the company has fallen short of financial targets, despite earlier cutbacks. German auto parts supplier Continental announced ...

The image of German leadership has taken a hit at home as well as among other Europeans, with a notable decline from a median of 60% to 54% in the past 12 months alone. Slovenia, Norway ...

High energy costs have hurt German manufacturers post-Ukraine war Debt brake limits German government's infrastructure, education investment Far right AfD has gained in popularity amid economic ...

“If I understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Friday. “That is ...

Voters who cast their ballots on February 23, 2025, did not directly elect the next German chancellor. Instead, they will elect politicians to the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.

German news media, and much of the country’s political leadership, immersed themselves to a larger degree in a blizzard of foreign-policy pronouncements from the Trump administration as Western ...

14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) FILE —Leader of right wing AfD Alice Weidel speaks during a plenary session at the German parliament Bundestag where he faces a vote of confidence, Berlin, ...

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A fiery final election debate between Germany's four leading chancellor candidates featured the economy, Ukraine, migration and US Vice President JD Vance. The quartet sparred on Ukraine, with ...

4. Will one party run the government? No party will have enough seats to form a government alone, given that the German system makes it extremely difficult to do so, by design. A coalition needs ...

The regulatory burden was also holding back innovation in Europe's biggest economy, said Christian Vietmeyer, head of steel and metal association WSM, which represents 5,000 German companies.