Another test case for Germany:s government: Voters will go to the polls in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany's wine-growing region and home of Donald Trump's ancestors.

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

On March 12, journalists working for Southwest Broadcasting (SWR), a German media outlet, were busy organizing a political debate in the city of Mainz as part ...

It's another test case for Germany's coalition government.The largest US air base outside the United States is located in ...

Cem Özdemir won the election in Baden-Württemberg partly by abandoning many of his Green Party's core issues. His party is still debating whether this was a good move.The narrow victory in the ...

A German court on Thursday jailed a Syrian man for 13 years for a jihadist-inspired knife attack on a Spanish tourist at Berlin's Holocaust memorial. The 30-year-old Spaniard, who was visiting the ...

Also in this newsletter: how the 50th anniversary celebration of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) was ...

Poland's ferocious dispute over EU defence loans reached a fever pitch on Thursday as nationalist president Karol Nawrocki vetoed a multi-billion-euro plan that parliament had already approved. But ...

As Donald Trump’s Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump Democrats hold up Homeland Security funding in what ...

As doubts grow over US reliability, the French president is set to unveil his plans at a nuclear submarine base in Brittany, proposing closer cooperation with allies while insisting ultimate ...

The night of last February’s German election, Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz said that Europe had to become more “independent” of the United States. The year since has shown that he ...