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Backing of Greens is tantamount to approval of chancellor-in-waiting’s proposal to relax debt brake

‘What more do you want from us?’ asks chancellor-in-waiting as he seeks urgent support for fiscal rule changes

Head-spinning speed of events leaves EU adapting at pace while trying to infer Trump’s possible geo-strategic aims

Editorial: The chancellor-elect’s proposals for gamechanging spending on defence and infrastructure are the right response to a new era

The Die Linke star behind the party’s rise in recent elections says there is ‘real momentum for progressive politics’.

Friedrich Merz, expected to be next chancellor, has spoken of urgent need for ramped-up defence, but ‘blocking minority’ could form in future Bundestag

The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s election warns

Germans on either side of the voting spectrum in the capital tell Tom Watling they voted out of fear

The conservative alliance led by Feidrich Merz took the most seats in the German Bundestag, but Alice Weidel’s far-right AfD is close behind.

Stance of German alliance’s leader could herald closer ties with France but ‘debt brake’ poses obstacle to spending

While the far-right representation in Germany's parliament doubled in size after weekend elections, the country's left wing also got a boost at the polls. With 8.5 percent of the vote, they easily crossed the five percent threshold to get back into active politics. RFI's Jan van der Made reports from…