As VW stumbles, its headquarters’ town — and Germany — shudder
In Volkswagen’s deepening troubles, a reflection of the mounting risks facing Germany.
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German city lures early election voters with free beer
Free beer or non-alcoholic drinks were offered to early voters in the part of the western German city of Duisburg that has shown low turnout in the past. The city of Duisburg in western Germany ...
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German Election Spotlight Turns to Trump
German news media, and much of the country’s political leadership, immersed themselves to a larger degree in a blizzard of foreign-policy pronouncements from the Trump administration as Western ...
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German election: Duisburg lures early voters by free beer
Free beer or non-alcoholic drinks were offered to early voters in the part of the western German city of Duisburg that has shown low turnout in the past. The city of Duisburg in western Germany ...
The Daily Telegraph3d
As Germany’s economic miracle unravels, its dark past is coming back to haunt it
the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is both large enough and extreme enough to pose a real threat to the post-war Western order. Its heady brew of illiberal ethnonationalism has attracted the ...
East Germany is a far-right stronghold — and economic concerns helped make it happen
The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...
EnBW head urges speed on new German power plant plan
Germany's next government must pick up a stalled draft law on the development of new gas-powered generation capacity quickly, ...
Politico Europe5d
What Germany’s East-West divide means for the election
The division between Germany’s East and West did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. An invisible “wall” still runs across the country when key demographic indicators are mapped.
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Germany's far-right AfD basks in spotlight of Musk support
and of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (bottom), candidate for chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), near the Opera building in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on February 14 ...
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Who is Friedrich Merz - the trained pilot and Angela Merkel's long-time rival on course to become German chancellor?
After a two-year lead in the polls, Friedrich Merz is largely expected to become German chancellor after the country's election later this month. Voters will head to the ballot box on 23 February ...
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The EU must not be a ‘dwarf’ in Washington, says Germany’s likely next chancellor
Speaking at a campaign event in his home region of Hochsauerland, in western Germany, Merz argued that Brussels should focus on strategic priorities rather than micromanaging citizens' lives. "The EU ...
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German police catch thieves stealing 200 packs of butter and 146 blocks of Parmesan cheese... but what on earth were they going to cook?
German police have caught thieves stealing 200 packs of butter and 146 blocks of Parmesan cheese. Officers stopped a Mercedes with two men inside during a patrol in the western German city of ...