Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have installed a automated teller machine for political donations up to €100 at their HQ. The election campaign gag attracts tourists paying a few euros for the receipt it spits out. READ () »
With national elections just months away, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has begun to reveal more about her personal life, from her Polish roots to her weakness for men with "nice eyes." READ () »
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has warned that only an onerous EU treaty change would create the legal framework needed to allow the formation of a single bailout agency for its ailing banks. READ () »
The German Green party leadership has vowed to commission an independent investigation into allegations that it supported a group keen to legalize sex with children decades ago. READ () »
Germany's political parties will receive more state money than ever before, it was reported on Monday. In the run-up to September's election, the country's parties will be fuelled by over €154 million. READ () »
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed more details of her activities under the communist regime in East Germany, insisting that she had never kept certain things secret, but that no one had ever asked. READ () »
Germany's Pirate Party vowed an attack on the political mainstream as it wrapped up a congress Sunday, hoping to re-energise a flagging campaign ahead of September elections. READ () »
German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has praised Turkey as a “success story” ahead of strategic talks on Sunday. But he said it was impossible to put a date on the country’s possible accession to the EU. READ () »
Germany's Pirate Party are meeting just over four months before general elections to chart a course out of a crisis that has seen its poll ratings sink amid internal squabbling. READ () »
US President Barack Obama will make an official visit to Germany next month for wide-ranging talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, the White House confirmed Friday. READ () »
German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble told Bild newspaper on Sunday that the Green Party’s plan to raise taxes makes a coalition with the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) impossible. READ () »
A new German far-right xenophobic party has taken as its name the slogan which helped bring down the Berlin wall, it was reported on Friday. READ () »
A smouldering row over politicians employing relatives in well-paid assistant roles burst into a full-blown nepotism scandal on Friday, when the head of Bavaria's state parliament named and shamed 79 MPs. READ () »
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