Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced on Friday he has agreed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's request to dissolve parliament and has set 23 February as the date for the new elections ...

German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the five people killed ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany’s election would “not be decided by the owners of social media channels” in his annual New Year’s Eve address. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from ...

The German government accused US billionaire Elon Musk on Monday of trying to influence its election due in February with articles supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD ...

The more than one million Syrians who fled to Germany have celebrated the end of war in their homeland, but some fear it could mean losing their refugee status. By Melissa Eddy Melissa Eddy ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, has reaffirmed his support for Germany's far-right party. In an op-ed for a major German newspaper, Musk called ...

Authorities in Germany face growing accusations they could have done more to prevent a deadly Christmas market attack as a judge ordered the suspect to be held in pre-trial detention following a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany’s kindergartens are in crisis, with staff shortages wreaking havoc in the lives of working ...

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk’s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the ...

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine, a respected German weekly paper that collated several opinion polls carried out in Germany throughout December, the AfD is currently polling in second ...

Germany's raucous New Year's celebrations led to a typically busy night for emergency services overnight and into the early hours of Wednesday. Police and fire services around the country reported ...

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk posted on X, prompting backlash from conservative and mainstream German leaders and the global Jewish community about a key Trump adviser’s endorsement ...