A new Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU)-led government needs to agree quickly on how to tackle the economy’s structural weaknesses while navigating increasingly ...
Pensions, migration and conscription will continue to dominate domestic politics in Germany this year. Above all, the focus ...
On Dec. 5, 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reached a significant milestone in his bid to build “Europe’s strongest ...
As political parties, including Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), promise more money for pensioners, pensions have become a hot topic in Germany ahead of the federal ...
? It was used during the euro zone crisis as a deliberately derogatory acronym to describe struggling Southern European countries. German ministers in particular resolutely told the governments of ...
WITH ITS ruling on the country’s “debt brake” last month, the German Constitutional Court has—surprisingly clearly for some—set very tight limits on government borrowing. Now the government is in ...
Germany’s film and TV sectors have been eagerly awaiting the biggest reform in the history of German film funding this year, and while the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz struggles to navigate a ...
The German government last week adopted a bill to end the prohibition of cannabis for adults that will make possession and home cultivation of weed legal in Europe’s most populous nation as of April 1 ...
After years of bitter fighting among Jews, the Reform movement is regaining an official place in the landscape of German Jewry. The Central Council of Jews in Germany has taken its first steps to ...