Meanwhile, the Left Party has doubled its membership to 110,000 since mid-2024 – with a clear progressive agenda, from social issues to climate change and refugee protection.

Alternative for Germany has joined France's National Rally and Reform U.K. in becoming the most popular party in its country, according to polls.

Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty in ways that violate their human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has adopted a code of conduct for its members, without changing its positions on immigration and other issues. By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F. Schuetze ...

A senior member of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Tuesday joined calls for Berlin to temporarily take in injured ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has driven sweeping changes in security, economic and migration policy during his first 100 ...

Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and Lars Klingbeil, the co-leader of the Social Democratic Party, in Berlin this month. Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

While Germany pledged to overhaul its social security system in 2021 to increase support to offset post-COVID-19 price increases for necessities, but political disagreement among Germany’s governing ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting and leader of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) Friedrich Merz, Christian Social Union (CSU) leader and Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder, co-leaders of the ...

Germany to reject undocumented migrants at border, interior minister says By Reuters May 7, 202510:01 AM PDTUpdated May 7, 2025 ...