The German parliament's commissioner for the armed forces urged a rapid rebuilding of the country's registration system for ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) completed preliminary talks on Saturday ...

The announcement comes after Austria, to the south, rejected Germany's idea of turning back asylum seekers at the border, ...

Cottbus, Germany, a modest-sized east German city near the Polish border, with its historic town square whose buildings date back as far as the 15th century, might seem a strange place to visit for ...

Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy ...

The Tories cannot openly move to the right without losing some of their centre flank. Of the seats won in 2024, Reform came ...

Our readers from across the county give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Kent and beyond. Some letters refer ...

Under the German parliamentary system, the old MPs keep their seats for up to 30 days after the election. “They will rush through changes to the law before the new parliament convenes.

Nigel Farage is taking advantage of this. Reform UK’s leader has successfully tapped into this resentment, directing it away ...

The beginnings of parliamentary life in Germany The Federal Act - the document establishing the German Confederation - prescribed the ... often elected indirectly by means of a stratified class system ...

German lawmakers will debate a 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund and sweeping changes to state borrowing rules to fund ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...