If you're a pro-EU Brit living abroad, there's plenty you can do to keen Britain 'in', explains Laura Shields from the Brits Abroad: Yes to Europe initiative.
Almost 60 percent of Turks living in Germany voted for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP in the Turkish parliamentary elections held at the weekend.
The deadline for registering to vote in the UK general elections is fast approaching, but not all UK expats will be casting their vote. We talked to Brits around Europe about why they will be voting – or not.
Foreigners who live, work and pay taxes in Germany should also be allowed to vote in the country, a high-profile Social Democrat (SPD) politician said on Sunday, adding his voice to the campaign to reform Germany's voting laws.
More than seven million people living in Germany are classed as foreigners. They live and work here, most of them pay taxes and all have the same obligations as German citizens, but with one great difference - they cannot vote.
Germans are losing their appetite for elections more dramatically than any other western democracy bar Portugal, as disillusionment with politicians the main cause, a study released on Tuesday suggested.
A German minister is calling for children to be given the vote, it was reported on Thursday. He said that excluding the country's 13 million under-18s was "absurd", triggering a backlash from other politicians.
An organization is hoping to boost the political clout of Americans living in Germany and elsewhere overseas by using technology to count them this summer. <b>Moises Mendoza</b> reports.
He had his public coming-out five years ago at Angela Merkel’s 50th birthday party and now Guido Westerwelle is in the frame to become Europe’s first openly gay foreign minister.
Get out your big red marker! The German election for the European parliament will be held on June 7. If you're an expat European citizen, and you want to use your shred of influence on the only directly-elected body of the European Union, check out The Local's practical guide.
