Germany has passed new measures that will see people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and those who've recovered from the virus, no longer have to abide by curfews, as well as quarantine and contact rules.
Germany will examine boosting security for its
parliament, the speaker of the house said Thursday, after the storming of the
US Congress by violent protesters.
The upper house of Germany's parliament approved a coronavirus rescue package Friday, green-lighting almost €1.1 trillion to shield Europe's largest economy from the impact of the pandemic.
The Bundestag on Wednesday passed an aid package totalling almost €1.1 trillion, as experts said they were still unable to tell if measures to stop the coronavirus spread in Germany were working.
Germany's Autobahn is famous for having zones with no speed restrictions. But the Greens are calling for a vote in the Bundestag in a bid to change this.
In a resounding 509 to 138 result, the Bundestag has voted to classify the northern African states of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco - along with Georgia in the Caucasus - as safe countries of origin for the purposes of German immigration law.
The Bundestag is well known for its lengthy discussions over Germany’s hot topics.
But tempers flared up to a higher level on Wednesday during a debate which covered topics including the recent right-wing riots in Germany.
Germany's grand coalition wants to regain its footing after the Union's unprecedented asylum dispute and launch a series of improvements for millions of citizens this autumn.
The migration row that threatened to sink Germany’s government continued to overshadow debates in the Bundestag as CSU leader Horst Seehofer said responsibility for getting EU countries to cooperate lies with the chancellor.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Wednesday answer questions posed by members of the Bundestag (German parliament) - something which no head of government has done before.
One of the most important dates in the political calendar took place in the Bundestag on Wednesday - the budget debate. Germany got its first chance to see how Merkel would deal with the AfD.
After over a century and a half of extinction, wolves are back in Germany and multiplying quickly. But who exactly is affected by this growth and does it pose a threat to humans?
Angela Merkel made some surprising admissions in the eagerly-awaited first speech of her new Chancellorship on Wednesday, including that her most famous soundbite is “unbelievably banal.”
A German far-right deputy was slapped with a €1,000 fine on Wednesday for tweeting a picture of his secret ballot, in which he voted against a fourth term for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
When the Alternative for Germany (AfD) rode a wave of anger at Germany’s refugee policies to win 12.6 percent of the vote in last year’s election, they promised to “hunt down” the mainstream parties. So far their record has been rather less effective.
Despite female lawmakers comprising less than a third - 30.7 percent - of the Bundestag, after Social Democrat (SPD) leader Martin Schulz renounced his leadership of the party last week, two of his potential successors are women.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) rode a wave of anger at the government’s refugee policy to land itself 90 seats in parliament. But apparently they haven’t quite mastered the Bundestag’s voting system yet.
The far-right Alternative for
Germany (AfD) party secured the chair of the country's powerful budget committee on Tuesday, after being repeatedly shunned for top parliamentary jobs which were shared out among more established parties.
Germany's parliamentary football team said Thursday it excluded an AfD MP because of a hooliganism conviction, the latest in a series of controversies surrounding the far-right party.
