Independent justices preside over Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. Germany's more than 20,000 judges are not "bound by ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

The political system in Germany is not ready to tell the people what needs to be done, says economist. Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

The current political earthquake around the world has led to greater focus on Germany and its role in NATO, the EU and global politics. Given that the ...

The political system in Germany loves consensus and has a weakness for the lowest common denominator. Sunday's result, however, is a wake-up call for Germany if the Federal Republic is to regain ...

No single political system had ever conquered the entire planet so rapidly or so thoroughly. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it appeared that the 20th-century triumph of democracy was complete.

Amid a tense political backdrop, marked by polls favoring the far right, Germany's early parliamentary elections will serve to test the new proportional representation system established last July.

In Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse and political center of gravity, Musk’s commentary roiled the political establishment — and drew expressions of glee from supporters of the AfD ...

Münchau shows how Germany’s mercantilist-corporatist economic system has crippled key engines of growth, starting with the nation’s banks. “The rise and fall of Germany’s corporatist financial ...