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75 years ago - on April 29, 1945 - the US army liberated the Dachau concentration camp, outside the medieval town of Dachau, 16 km northwes...

(Elke Wetzig/ Creative Commons) On February 5, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and free-market liberal Free Democrati...

The German city-state of Bremen went to the polls on May 10 Germany’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) has narrowly held on to ...

State elections in Hamburg on February 15 saw the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) retain control of the traditionally left-wing...

Nearly twenty-five years to the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialist party Die Linke (“The Left”) looks set to form government i...

Elections in the German state of Saarland on March 25 have dealt a heavy blow to the federal coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merke...

German President Christian Wulff resigned on February 17 after prosecutors applied to have his presidential immunity stripped in a corruptio...

Elections in the city-state of Berlin on September 18 delivered another serious blow to the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, e...

Elections in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on September 4 have handed the conservative government of German Chancellor ...

On May 30, the German government announced that all of Germany’s seventeen nuclear power stations would be permanently shut down by 2022. G...

State elections on March 27 saw the German Greens win an historic victory in Baden-Württemberg – where they will form Germany’s first-ever ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) survived a narrow vote in elections for the eastern state of Sa...

Facing public outrage and concern over the nuclear meltdown unfolding in Japan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced the temporary ...

The ruling party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was resoundingly defeated in state elections in Hamburg on February 20.    The right...

Germany’s centre-right government is facing what many have dubbed a “hot autumn” of protests, as conflict over a range of social, political ...

Coasting on the back of environmental protests and a hemorrhaging two-party system, the German Greens have sent shock waves through German p...

Germany’s Federal Administrative Court ruled on July 21 that the Verfassungsschutz — Germany’s domestic spy agency — had a right to spy on t...

On June 30, the German parliament met to elect the country’s largely symbolic president. What should have been a fairly straightforward affa...

The government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in crisis, following the resignation of Germany’s President Horst Koehler on May 31. K...

On May 15, the far-left German party Die Linke held its national congress in the eastern city of Rostock, electing a new national leadersh...