Friedrich Merz will have another chance to secure a regional election victory on Sunday after the German chancellor’s ...

The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

Last year’s elections saw a resurgence for Germany’s socialist party Die Linke. In an interview, coleader Ines Schwerdtner explains how the party is seeking to expand beyond current left-wing voters ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent ...

Germany’s election system works differently from the American one. Instead of a two-party structure, multiple parties compete and must form coalition governments. This video explains why elections can ...

Friedrich Merz has called for greater European unity, but he did not publicly object to the president rebuking Spain and Britain during an Oval Office meeting. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from ...

India is also among the countries hoping to host the 2036 Olympics. Germany has signalled its willingness, but this has ...

A German cabinet minister walked out during one acceptance speech, and Berlin's conservative mayor said the ceremony was “misused for political destruction.” By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

Reporters’ attempts to draw stars into debates about Gaza and other highly charged topics have threatened to overshadow the movies at the Berlin Film Festival. By Thomas Rogers Reporting from Berlin ...

Many of the Democrats who came to the Munich Security Conference this weekend want to be president. But even if one of them can win the White House in 2028, they may find they can no longer claim the ...