Chancellor Angela Merkel was unflinching in her criticisms of President Vladimir Putin of Russia in a Bundestag speech seen as confirming a turning point in German foreign policy on Wednesday.
The Green-Red coalition government in North Rhein-Westphalia is urging the federal government not to do away with the solidarity surcharge on income taxes in 2020, and instead funnel more of the money into the books of the western states, it was reported on Monday.
Left-wing politicians in Thuringia have tried to placate centrist voters in their programme for the first state government led by the Linke (Left) party, the former East German Communist Party.
The path is clear for the far-left party, Die Linke, to lead a German state for the first time, after its future coalition partners voted in favour of forming a government in the eastern state of Thuringia.
The EU condemned Russia on Friday for barring entry to the German leader of the Green fraction in the European Parliament who flew to Moscow to observe a trial of a Ukrainian pilot accused of espionage.
They may have been ousted as the third biggest party in the German parliament, but the Greens are alive, kicking and competing in the European Parliament elections. The Local explores their election manifesto.
The Green party announced early on Wednesday that it has pulled out of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on forming the next coalition government.
Chancellor Angela Merkel met the opposition Social Democrats' leader on Friday, ahead of a decision expected next week on her preferred governing partner for Europe's biggest economy.
Germans are growing so tired of politicians dithering over forming a coalition government that a third would rather vote again in fresh elections, an opinion poll suggested on Thursday.
Germany's leading family planning group published articles justifying paedophilia during the 1980s and 90s, researchers said on Wednesday. Article headlines included “the misery of a forbidden love.”
Germany’s Green Party appears to be warming to the idea of joining Angela Merkel in government with its leaders giving off signals that the ecological party would welcome a return to the corridors of power.
Claudia Schmidt initially seems like a typical 'wine queen' (Weinkönigin). She's got the flowing white dress, long silk gloves and very sparkly tiara - and lit up the otherwise downbeat Greens election party at Berlin's Columbiahalle last Sunday.
Three days after the election handed Angela Merkel's party a clear victory whilst destroying its key ally, the isolated victors are no closer to forming a new government. <i>Josie Le Blond</i> looks at where the Chancellor goes from here.
Renate KĂĽnast and JĂĽrgen Trittin on Tuesday joined Green party leaders Claudia Roth and Cem Ă–zdemir in stepping down after Sunday's disappointing election result raised questions over the party's future direction.
From politicians hoping to win votes through cookery videos, singing in parliament and handing out free toothbrushes while clad in a straw hat, the German election campaign has had some cringeworthy moments.
The aptly-named city of Essen has taken back its plan to introduce meat-free Thursdays. City authorities said the plan had been "too hard" and regretted it had "slipped in" to a document detailing policy recommendations.
Tax rises, more investment in education, road tolls and foreign policy changes – the outcome of the German election will affect both expats living in Germany and people in other countries. Here we run through seven reasons why.
Less than a week until the general election and Germany's Green Party leader faces part of his past he thought forgotten. The politician put his name to an election manifesto in 1981 pushing for paedophilia to be legalized.
In the fifth part of The Local's guide to the main parties competing in Germany's election, we look at Europe's most successful environmental party - Die GrĂĽnen (the Greens).
They were supposed to help the green credentials of two of Germany's biggest political parties. But 100,000 expensive "eco-friendly" election posters are having to be replaced after washing off in the rain.
