Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

A romantic dreamer, often referred to as the Swan King or Fairy Tale King (der Märchenkönig), Ludwig spared no expense in creating lavish palaces across southern Germany. In this article you ...

Dozens of students at a U.S. military middle school in Germany walked out of class in protest of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's dismantling of DEI policies during his visit to the country this week.

INGOLSTADT, Germany—Christian Scharpf, the mayor of this city of 140,000, Germany’s second richest, is looking for ways to save close to €100 million. Carmaker Audi, headquartered here ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk made a surprise virtual appearance during Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on Saturday, as thousands of ...

Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly with votes from the Alternative for Germany. By Jim Tankersley and ...

Before the paparazzi and TMZ, we had to rely on celebrity postcards to get a glimpse into the private estates (and Christmas trees) of Hollywood’s finest. These vintage postcards from the 1920s ...

GERMANY IS THE hole at the heart of Europe. It accounts for a quarter of the European Union’s output but it has been in recession for the past two years—and this year risks being the third ...

‘Heil Tesla’ was projected onto the Gigafactory of the Elon Musk-led EV maker Tesla at Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany, amid the ongoing controversy over a hand gesture by the billionaire at ...

An opposition bloc of Germany’s center-right parties, the Union, led by Friedrich Merz, is leading pre-election polls with AfD in second place. Merz said Friday that his party will bring motions ...

He is a close ally of conservative U.S. President Donald Trump and has, much to the ire of Scholz, spent the past few weeks boosting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of a ...