Spoiler: It’s looking rough for Scholz’s Social Democrats. A conservative former Merkel-foe appears likely to take over, and the far right is busy cosying up to a certain US tech billionaire for even ...

Ahead of the February 23rd federal election, the party is on 4 per cent in all polls – one point short of the 5 per cent ...

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Lindner highlights Bitcoin's potential role in Germany's financial system, supporting discussions on its inclusion in state ...

FDP top candidate and former finance minister Christian Lindner speaks during the last parliament session ahead of national's ...

Framed as the troublemaker in an unpopular coalition, the FDP is mostly polling below Germany’s electoral threshold of 5%. If ...

Germany's neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) have a long history of being junior partner in federal governments. This year, however they could fail to win parliamentary representation altogether.

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

Germany's center-right bloc of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) has unanimously voted in favor of an election program that promises to lower ...

Germany elects a new parliament on February 23, with potential ramifications for the financial industry of Europe's largest ...