PETER SPARDING is Senior Vice President and Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and ...

Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

Late last year, Scholz intentionally failed a vote of no-confidence in the German parliament, forcing a snap election to be held later this month. Weidel, as the AfD’s candidate for chancellor ...

In late 2023, the German parliament passed an amendment to the country’s Building Energy Act. This would mean all newly installed heating systems have to be powered by at least 65 per cent ...

Mr. Merz, breaking a decades-old taboo, quickly pushed a set of migration bills to a vote in Parliament, knowing they could pass only with votes from the AfD. Protests ensued across Germany ...

"We want to modernize the debt brake cautiously," said Scholz in the last session of the Bundestag, the German parliament, ahead of the elections on February 23. Scholz has argued for months that ...

After serving one term as an MEP, Merz, a married father-of-three, was elected to the Bundestag – Germany’s parliament – and established himself as a leader in financial policy. In 2003 ...

Friedrich Merz speaks at a debate about migration at the German parliament Bundestag Credit: AP Another party predicted to do well is the far-right AfD, led by 46-year-old Alice Weidel ...

For Franke, the decision by Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz to pass a non-binding resolution through the German parliament with the help of the AfD has made her group's work all the more ...

Under Scholz, Germany has certainly lacked decisive leadership, but Merz is seen as arrogant even by his colleagues. His readiness to make common cause with the AfD in parliament has drawn ...