In other news, Poland’s announcement of tax on big tech prompts predictable US backlash; Slovakia’s PM denies Croatian ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The topic of immigration has gr ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...

While the government can’t send noncitizens to jail for saying things it doesn’t like, it can and should deny or pull visas ...

Leaders suffering recent polling slumps have seen their popularity rebound since Trump returned to the White House in January, according to recent polls.

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Toluwalope Ogunleye, a medical expert has advised pregnant mothers to donate umbilical cord to a blood bank and potentially save a life.

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

Cottbus, Germany, a modest-sized east German city near the Polish border, with its historic town square whose buildings date back as far as the 15th century, might seem a strange place to visit for ...

If you saw a particular Sunday network-television-news program on Feb. 16, you heard the host say that in Germany, “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Yes, you read that correctly: ...