German retail sales look up slightly - driven by food sales The German month-on-month retail sales for January inched up 0.2%, bouncing back from a 1.6% fall in December, according to official ...

Under the current rules, the German diaspora cannot vote at their local embassies or consulates, nor can they ask a proxy to cast a ballot on their behalf back home. Instead, they have to rely on ...

DUISBURG, Germany – Sporting a cap with the Trump-inspired slogan “Make Duisburg great again”, Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Alan Imamura was upbeat as he campaigned for the far ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...

German citizens will vote twice: once for a local member of parliament and second for a party. A party must receive at least 5 percent of the national vote to enter the Bundestag, the elected ...

The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the far-right AfD. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election, defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats. Merz says he wants to form a government within two months, saying he wants to ...

BERLIN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative ...

Election posters are seen next to tents set up by the IG Metall union opposite the headquarters of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg, western Germany, on February 22, 2025. (Photo by Louis VAN ...

Voters who cast their ballots on February 23, 2025, did not directly elect the next German chancellor. Instead, they will elect politicians to the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has posted an historic result, cementing its role as a major force in German politics. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has suffered a ...

DUISBURG, Germany - Sporting a cap with the Trump-inspired slogan "Make Duisburg Great Again", AfD candidate Alan Imamura was upbeat as he campaigned for the far-right party in Germany's ailing ...