The party ended up with the worst result since the party was named the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” in 1890 and was pushed into third place by the far-right AfD with almost 21 percent ...

Despite securing key ministries and policy successes, Germany’s Social Democrats face internal disarray and a fractured ...

To reach voters outside its Eastern heartlands, the AfD is putting a new gloss on its anti-immigrant message — while sticking ...

The German government is desperately trying to avoid a public scandal due to the publication by representatives of the ruling ...

Supporters of Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, react after first exit polls announced on a party's election event in Potsdam, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024.

The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz will join a coalition led by Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, which won ...

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If the deal is approved by the CDU and by grassroots members of the Social Democrats it will clear ... well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the ...

On May 2, 2025, four days before parliamentary power was to change hands, outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party announced that Germany’s domestic spy agency (the BfV ...

The party ended up with the worst result since the party was named the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” in 1890 and was pushed into third place by the far-right AfD with almost 21 percent ...

Supporters of Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, react after first exit polls announced on a party's election event in Potsdam, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024.