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Wind power generation in Germany – Europe’s largest wind producer – is on track to record its longest stretch of below-normal production since early 2021 due to a spell of low wind speeds ...
A former U.S. soldier extradited to stand trial for the killing of a pregnant German teen nearly 50 years ago has been found ...
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ...
The AfD reached a particularly large number of voters in eastern Germany, where it has long had a stronghold. But it also gained some significant support in constituencies in the country’s west ...
The floods in July 2021 were among the worst disasters in German history. At least 196 people died in Germany, 43 people died in Belgium and the total damage to Central Europe amounted to €46 ...
Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...
With several citizens held in Gaza, Germany has adopted a forceful role in the fight for hostages, seeing itself as ...
Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...
Within mainland Europe, Germany has become particularly dependent on electricity imports, and in 2024 imported nearly six times more electricity than it averaged annually from 2015 to 2021 ...
In the Parliament, or Bundestag, women make up only 12 percent of the hard-right Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD, while in Mr. Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union, they make ...
JD.com is acquiring Germany's Ceconomy in a deal that values the electronics retailer at 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion), ...