Germany is under pressure,’ warns Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, who speaks of adversaries both foreign and domestic ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... It is frightening to see how swiftly my home country is transforming into a semi-totalitarian state. There are now serious efforts to ban ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the presentation of the final report of the "Initiative for a State Capable of ...

In the year leading up to Germany’s February elections, the far-right party Alternative for Germany was rising fast in the polls. It would ultimately increase its seats in the Bundestag from 76 to 152 ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance's criticism of European democracy on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. "Democracy does not mean that a ...

This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. On May 2, 2025, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) ...

At the end of last week, Germany officially labeled the far-right Alternative für Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed right-wing extremist group. This unprecedented decision was announced by the ...

Germany’s February election produced an unprecedented result. The center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by Friedrich Merz, won the most votes and the largest number of seats in the Bundestag.

German civil society leaders, including women who lived through World War II, issue a rare and urgent message to Americans. Drawing parallels to 1930s Germany, they warn that democracy can collapse ...

In December, the German government—a coalition led by Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats—lost a no-confidence vote. Elections will be held next month. Scholz came to power after the sixteen-year reign of ...

MUNICH — Germany’s defense minister pushed back hard against U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s complaints Friday about the state of democracy in Europe, saying nine days before his country’s election ...