Germany's proportional voting system means most governments are made up of a coalition of at least two parties - which affects what laws are possible. Here are the most likely coalitions to happen ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Scholz is expected to lose the vote in the German parliament's lower house, or Bundestag, which will take place on 16 ...

Maassen has been repeatedly accused of using antisemitic codes, ranting about 'globalists,' a 'new world order,' or an ...

Up to 700,000 people demonstrated in towns throughout Germany on 1-2 Feb after the Bundestag (German Parliament) voted to ...

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It was a mix of surprise and bewilderment in Brussels last week when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a ...

In the two-party system that engulfs Maltese politics, elections can be tricky to perfectly predict - regular surveys conducted in the election build-ups often do not give the true picture. But what ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative frontrunner in the German election, is focusing his campaign on proposals to revive the ...

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If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...