A Christian Democratic Union victory long looked likely despite the unpopularity of the 10-month-old national government. But the party's poll lead shrank ahead of Sunday's election.

F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only—Green-led government. Two weeks before that vote the Fukushima disaster ...

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President Donald Trump alluded to his father being born in Germany, as he has several times in the past. But his father was ...

Ms. Sauerbrey is a German journalist who writes about Germany’s politics, society and culture. She wrote from Berlin.

World leaders have been responding cautiously amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, reports of its supreme leader's death ...

A German court says that the country’s domestic intelligence agency can’t label the Alternative for Germany party a proven ...

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Germany produced 18% of its electricity through solar power in 2025, up from 14% in 2024, a significant leap that meant solar overtook both coal and methane gas in the country’s electrical supply – ...

Officials in Germany are scaling back their plans to develop more natural gas–fired power plants, as the government wants to continue its path toward decarbonization while also recognizing the need to ...

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