Alice Weidel doesn’t fit the profile of a far-right politician. The German AfD is willing to look past it.
She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an ...
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Funding cuts and culture wars: What the German election means for aid
After the recent election in Germany, the next chancellor is expected to be center-right leader Friedrich Merz. What will his ...
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Germany’s Greens vow to quash Merz’s spending revolution
The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...
Friedrich Merz’s CDU reaches preliminary agreement with Scholz’s SPD to form Germany’s next coalition govt
In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...
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‘We will be a loud voice’: Leftist leader Reichinnek woos young Germans
The Die Linke star behind the party’s rise in recent elections says there is ‘real momentum for progressive politics’.
Germany's Greens may torpedo Merz's spending bonanza but hint at deal
Germany's Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing but ...
Explainer: Germany's rocky path to a new debt settlement
Germany's would-be next chancellor, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with whom he is trying ...
Germany: CDU/CSU and SPD closer to coalition
Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...
France 24 on MSN5d
Germany's Merz proposes massive increase in defence, infrastructure spending
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU party, on Tuesday said that his government would seek to ...
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Israel open to talking to European far-right parties, but won’t speak with Germany’s AfD
We look at their deeds on the ground today. Do they denounce or ban party members with anti-Semitic statements?’ ...
Inside the terrifying rise of Germany's Neo-Nazis who’ve ‘forgotten the past’
EXCLUSIVE: The Express went to Germany to investigate the resurgence of a hateful ideology most thought had been confined to ...
Germany's Merz wants European nuclear weapons to boost US shield
BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he would like talks with France and Britain ...