German lawmakers on Friday narrowly rejected a highly controversial bill to tighten migration controls, averting another victory for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) just weeks ahead of ...

Germany's lower house of parliament on Tuesday convened for the election of Friedrich Merz as the country's new chancellor. Merz requires an absolute majority of votes in the 630-seat Bundestag to ...

Germany's new parliament is convening for the first time after the February 23 federal election that brought an end to the center-left government of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz: The election ...

The Bundestag is a constitutional and legislative body at the federal level in Germany. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: German Bundestag has hosted 73 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government has been in power for two months now. If you believe the opposition, they are doing a lot of things wrong.Whenever the budget is debated in the Bundestag, it is ...

The conservative leader, who has been weakened by the unprecedented first round setback, secured 325 votes in the dramatic second round — just above the 316 needed to win, Western media, including ...

In a rapid turn of events, the German Bundestag’s budget committee has placed pressure on the German Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, to present a bill for recreational cannabis reform this year ...

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder Friday sued the German Bundestag for stripping his office space privileges. Schröder’s lawyers Michael Nagel and Ralph Heiermann said that they filed suit on ...

From a human rights perspective, the Alternative für Deutschland's (AfD) entry into the Bundestag poses a serious challenge. Germany’s main parties should also examine the extent to which they ...

Katrin Helling-Plahr of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) presented legislation Friday to regulate assisted suicide in Germany. Helling-Plahr partnered with fellow Bundestag members Dr. Karl Lauterbach ...