Can you express your opinion freely in Germany? Yes, but not unconditionally. Rules on speech are stricter in Germany than, for example, in the United States.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called 'a bitter election ...

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...

Suppressing dissent from what elites regard as ‘acceptable’ policies is the route to undermining democracy.

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s national election and is fielding its first candidate ...

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

On Tuesday evening, in the building of the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt in east Berlin, the rich allegro sounds of the first movement of Mozart’s clarinet quintet filled the halls, played by the ...

Immigration is the defining issue not only of the Feb. 23 election, where AfD has a strong foothold, but the entirety of ...

Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the ...

Angela Merkel's policies, like welcoming mass migration, hailed by Europe's establishment at the time, now 'lie in ruins,' ...

US president Donald Trump has hailed Sunday as a "great day for Germany" after an election in which conservative opposition ...