A German regional leader has sparked a backlash after he admitted on a chat app to playing Candy Crush on his phone
during online pandemic response meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The east German state of Thuringia will be the first in Germany to scrap social distancing requirements put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
As Germany slowly emerges from
coronavirus lockdown, one woman is lighting a nightly installation of 8,000
candles in memory of the pandemic dead, determined to continue "until a
vaccine is found".
Germany's far-right AfD party is considering a split with its radical Flügel faction to create two separate parties, according to party co-leader Jörg Meuthen.
Politicians in the eastern German state of Thuringia re-elected a former state premier Wednesday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party sitting out the vote after a first try sank it into a deep crisis.
Lawmakers in the eastern German state of Thuringia will try again to elect a new state premier Wednesday, re-running a vote that sank Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party into what has been described as the biggest crisis in its history.
The eastern German state of Thuringia plans to hold new elections in spring, after mainstream parties' apparent cooperation with the far right there unleashed a national scandal and forced the
resignation of Chancellor Angela Merkel's chosen successor.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday said it was "right" for German leader Angela Merkel to rule out working with the far right, even after he did the opposite in his previous government.
Several thousand people demonstrated Saturday in Erfurt, capital of Thuringia state in Germany's former communist east, where far-right lawmakers last week helped install a new state premier.
The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU in Germany's Thuringia state stepped down Friday over his role in an alliance with a far right party which plunged the party into crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are in crisis mode after regional MPs sided with the far-right in a key vote, causing nationwide outrage and testing her leadership.
The new premier of Thuringia has stepped down after he was elected with the help of far-right AfD lawmakers in a vote Angela Merkel called "unforgivable". Here's why this is Germany's latest political crisis.
The premier of Germany's Thuringia state stepped down and called for snap elections Thursday, barely 24 hours
after he was elected with the help of far-right AfD lawmakers.
The tiny central state of Thuringia
broke a German political taboo Wednesday when a candidate for the regional
premiership was unexpectedly heaved into office with help from the far-right
AfD party, prompting outrage.
Two children, both eight years old, were
killed and five more seriously injured when a school bus slipped off an icy
road into a ditch in central Germany on Thursday, officials said.
Katja Wolf, mayor of the town of Eisenach in the central German state of Thuringia, has been sued by a member of her city council for refusing to shake his hand.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
retraced his steps Thursday in the eastern German village of Mödlareuth, once
a divided "Little Berlin" where he served as a young army officer.
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?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces renewed pressure from within her Christian Democrats after the centre-right party was beaten by the populist, far-right AfD in the Thuringia state election on Sunday.
Exactly five voters saved the FDP (Free Democrats) from a new electoral flap, and made Thuringia the only east German state where the liberal party has parliamentary representation.
Jewish community leaders in Germany voiced fears Monday over a surge in support for the far-right AfD in a regional
election Thuringia state, just weeks after an anti-Semitic attack.
Germany's far-right AfD scored
further gains Sunday, in the ex-communist eastern state of Thuringia, at the
expense of big parties such as Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU.
Germany's far-right AfD hopes for more gains in the ex-communist east on Sunday when voters go to the polls in the state of Thuringia, even as the party comes under pressure in the wake of a deadly shooting at a synagogue.
Germany's far-right AfD party faces a key test of support in a state election in former communist east Germany on Sunday, following national outrage over a deadly shooting at a synagogue.
