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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 ...

Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, speaks during a session of the German parliament 'Bundestag' in Berlin, Germany ... Marshall Fund ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Nobody can be expected to fix Germany’s problems overnight, but with the ...

Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for chancellor, left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a news conference following their meeting in the ...

Dozens of students at a U.S. military middle school in Germany walked out of class in ... from the military – in a memo filed in federal court, Hegseth banned people suffering from gender ...

Amazon has confirmed German customers will not lose Prime services after court ruling. Following a licensing dispute ... not affect its ability to provide services to its customers in Germany, who ...

Although his asylum application had been rejected, he lived in Germany legally with a residence permit and had no previous convictions. He is being investigated for 36 counts of attempted murder ...

Spectre of far-Right nationalism looms as Germans prepare to cast their ballots Next Sunday, Germany goes to the ... after calling a black opponent a “court jester”. Grand coalitions are ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...