If the SPD loses the Bundestag elections on February 23 as polls suggest that they will, Scholz's three-year term of office will have been the shortest in the Federal Republic of Germany's history.

When Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised what he called Brandenburg’s “economic miracle” in early January ... In a former East German mining town, political extremes entice disenchanted voters Germany's ...

That’s because an unusual era is drawing to an end, one that was likened by Bert Ruerup, one of Germany’s top economists, to a “second economic miracle.” (The first was West Germany’s ...

Its people seemed to be facing a bleak and uncertain future, but by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Germany had the third largest economy in the world, and still holds onto its top three ...

Germany’s unfavorable demographics mean this is much too optimistic. Notwithstanding the energetic Merz’s desire to speedily form a government and the likelihood he’ll have to drop his ...

Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years. It has doubled its vote share since 2021 with more than 10 million ...