By James Mackenzie BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives face their second electoral ...

Württemberg, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU. The far-right AfD was the third strongest party, having made ...

F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only ...

The Greens have emerged as the narrow winners in the Baden-Württemberg state election. All the reactions following the key ...

Germany’s “model industrial state” has become the country’s biggest job killer. Some 40,000 people lost their jobs last year alone, and further layoffs and cost-cutting programmes are in the works.

The Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, is shunned in federal politics but is a regional force. This fall, it could win ...

Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) were reeling on Sunday after plunging to their worst ever result in a German ...

Wuerttemberg's state election, surpassing Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives despite pre-election trailing.

Wuerttemberg's state election, marking a significant political shift by teaming up with Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ...

Germany's environmental Greens took a narrow lead over Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives in a state election in the ...

By James Mackenzie BERLIN, March 6 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces his first electoral test since taking ...

From an infinity mirror room in Cologne to a very controversial German Bookshop Award and uncertain plans for the Easter holiday, here's what we're talking about at The Local this week.