The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.

CDU politician Julia Klöckner is the new president of the German parliament. She is seen as a controversial choice by many, ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's new parliament on Tuesday elected as its speaker a conservative former minister, who called for ...

For decades, Germans took Russia's energy, China's market and the US' security guarantee for granted. They can't be so ...

Ten years after Kyiv and Moscow first negotiated a ceasefire to end the fighting in Ukraine’s east, the two sides may once ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a top contender for the chancellorship, Merz is playing a ...

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment, Dr Dion George, will this week represent South Africa at the 15th Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD), where the country will reinforce its ...

The SPD has long sought to change the country's Basic Law to weaken the "debt brake" - a strict rule prohibiting budget financing with new debt above a certain level ...

"The whole world is watching Germany these days. We have a task — in the European Union, and in the world — that goes far beyond the borders of our own country and the well-being of our own people." T ...

However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges— almost all of which are linked to Donald Trump. Those were the ...

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...