Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat rival Peer Steinbrück will spend the next few days whizzing through the country in a final attempt to win votes. But they're managing to avoid each other - and sticking to their heartlands.
With military reforms set to end both conscription and its alternative <i>Zivildienst</i> public service, Family Minister Kristina Schröder said Wednesday that Germany should harness the power of its ageing population to fill the volunteer gap.
In the final week before Germany's election, The Local’s series on politicians with non-German roots features The Left party’s MP <b>Sevim Dağdelen</b>, a Turkish-German socialist who says she’s fighting for equality and economic security for all.
The premier of the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Peter Harry Carstensen, called a confidence vote after his efforts to dissolve parliament and force early elections failed on Monday.
Green party top candidate Jürgen Trittin told Sunday newspaper <i>Bild am Sonntag</i> that shutting down old nuclear power stations would be a condition of entering a government coalition following September’s election.
Around 2,000 leftists are expected to attend an "anti-nationalist" parade in Berlin on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic on Saturday, organisers said Friday.
