New statistics reportedly show post-COVID lows in asylum applications to Germany. But does the data provide a complete picture of displacement abroad? Fewer and fewer people are seeking asylum in ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government with the country’s Social Democrats. The new government’s priorities are to ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz’s CDU party emerged victorious in February’s vote but failed to win a majority, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surging into second place ...

A new poll shows the Alternative für Deutschland is now Germany’s most popular political party, marking another turning point for the right-wing group’s rise. The anti-immigration ...

[Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images ... Germany‘s national election. Though several key aspects of Merz’s turnaround plan clashed fundamentally with the SPD’s agenda, the two centrist parties ...

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