
Desperation Grows in Berlin as Merz Coalition Faces ‘Brutal Polls’
With the right-wing populist AfD reaching record national support, pressure mounts on Chancellor Merz and his coalition.

With the right-wing populist AfD reaching record national support, pressure mounts on Chancellor Merz and his coalition.

CDU/CSU and multiple civil society actors warn of massive interference with civil liberties.

Berlin denied there is any truth to a U.S. report accusing Germany of a deteriorating free speech environment.

Centrist Spahn boasts of wanting Berlin to have a doomsday deterrent of its own.

The court enforcing the convention has often prevented member states from pursuing policies that serve their national interests.