Mainstream parties have ruled out working with the far-right AfD. But now CDU officials in Thuringia say talks with the anti-immigration party shouldn't be ruled out. Is the tide turning?
Leftist politicians on Tuesday pledged to address the concerns of poor people in Germany and win back working-class voters who have drifted to the xenophobic far-right.
Politicians from Die Linke (the Left Party) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are struggling to find homes and office space in the febrile political atmosphere of eastern Germany, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The attacks carried out by refugees in Germany over the past week show that Merkel's welcoming policy towards refugees was "reckless", the Left Party's (Die Linke) co-leader said on Monday.
One-third of unemployed people in Germany are unable to afford a square meal at least once every two days, figures from the Federal Office of Statistics showed on Monday.
Residents of the town of Regensburg in central Bavaria have found a rather clever way of blocking demonstrations by the far-right Pegida movement – by block-booking all the town's squares for their own rallies.
Prosecutors in Thuringia are investigating the state's section of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after accusations they tried to bribe fellow politicians for their votes in the election for state president.
Controversial new Thuringia minister-president Bodo Ramelow of the Left (Linke) party missed his first session of Germany's second house of parliament, the Bundesrat, to go on holiday with his family.
Thuringia officially has a Linke (The Left) politician as minister-president after Bodo Ramelow was sworn in on Friday to lead the red-red-green coalition.
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.
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.
He's known for his eloquence and rhetoric, although this week he was just a guy being chased into a bathroom. We're naming Die Linke (Left) party leader Gregor Gysi our German of the Week.
The Left (Die Linke) party chief Gregor Gysi took refuge in a toilet after two activist journalists chased him down alleging that he called them
anti-Semitic.
With roots going back to the Socialist Unity Party (SED) that ruled East Germany, can the Linke (Left) ever distance itself from the GDR regime's crimes?
The normally staid proceedings of Germany's Parliament (the Bundestag) were shaken on Friday morning, when a service marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall reopened old wounds.
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.
Germany's president sparked a heated debate on Monday after questioning whether the country's far-left party, Die Linke, is fit to lead its first state government since the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago.
UPDATE: Germany's anti-euro party celebrated huge gains in elections in two eastern states on Sunday night, in a show of strength that spells a growing threat for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.
Germany’s main opposition party has called for people on low incomes to be given free holiday vouchers worth €500 a year so they can afford to go away on summer vacations.
For the sixth and final part of our guide to the main parties competing in this weekend's elections, we look at the country's main far-left party, Die Linke.
Germany's political parties will receive more state money than ever before, it was reported on Monday. In the run-up to September's election, the country's parties will be fuelled by over €154 million.
