Tour a German Creative Couple’s Old Nordic House
After connecting on Instagram occasionally and seeing each other again a few times in Hamburg, they met up a year later at ...
A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...
In Germany, ‘Orphaned’ by U.S., Shock Gives Way to Action
No country in Europe is as much a product of enlightened postwar American diplomacy. Now adrift, it has begun to reckon with ...
Victims of German colonialism pushing country into new reckoning with dark past
Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ...
The midterms won’t save the Democrats
Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...
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Vehicle rams into crowd in Mannheim, Germany, killing at least 2 and leaving others wounded
The incident came as crowds gathered in cities across Germany for parades to mark the ... The police said officers "were able to arrest the 40-year-old German suspect from Rhineland-Palatinate ...
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2 killed and several injured in suspected car ramming in Mannheim, Germany
An 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man were killed ... Carlo Angerer is a multimedia producer and reporter based in Mainz, Germany. Patrick Smith is a London-based editor and reporter ...
Politico Europe25d
German election rekindles old divisions
In 2021, the SPD won on both ends of Germany’s decades-old and persistent East-West divide. But as the socialists beat a retreat in Sunday’s election, that gap became glaringly visible once more. In a ...
Sky26d
German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall
Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years. It has doubled its vote share since 2021 with more than 10 million ...
Lowy Institute26d
New chancellor, new challenges – same old Germany?
So sighed Friedrich Merz, Germany’s prospective next Chancellor, in a post-election discussion last night. World events, he observed with some pain, had led to the dissolution of the old Atlanticist ...
France 2426d
How Germany’s enduring East-West divide is pushing voters to the fringes
“If you look up the electoral maps of the general election, it’s as if the old East Germany still exists,” he said. “The vote for AfD, the fascist or far-right party if you ...
The Independent26d
What does the election result mean for German politics?
Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), very closely allied with its Bavarian partner the Christian Social Union (CSU), has come first in the German elections. Merz will ...