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Merkel helps boost conservatives' popularity

Politics: 8 Feb 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives are flying high in a new opinion poll showing them garnering their best result since her beleaguered coalition took power in 2009. Germans are also more confident the euro crisis can be beat. READ »

Cake in the face for 'Baron Cut-and-Paste'

Politics: 3 Feb 12
Critics of disgraced former German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg hit him in the face with a big cake on Thursday night, while he was meeting a Pirate Party politician in a Berlin café. READ »

Wulff faces new claims of improprieties

Politics: 1 Feb 12
German President Christian Wulff's office was aware of alleged improprieties by his former spokesman as early as 2010, a magazine reported on Wednesday as pressure increased on the embattled head of state. READ »

Liberal party support 'too small for statistics'

Politics: 28 Jan 12
Angela Merkel’s junior coalition party, the Free Democratic Party, is doing so badly in opinion polls that some questions cannot be answered with any statistical validity. READ »

FDP in tatters as state government falls

Politics: 6 Jan 12
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partner the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was dealt another devastating blow on Friday as the government in the small western state of Saarland collapsed. READ »

President in crisis as poll numbers tank

Politics: 5 Jan 12
With his poll numbers sinking, German President Christian Wulff came under renewed pressure Thursday following a televised mea culpa in response to his exploding financial scandal. READ »

The Local's top five politics stories of 2011

Politics: 30 Dec 11
For a country where politics sometimes seems to move at a glacial pace, Germany was practically a hotbed of drama in 2011. We’ve pulled together our favourite five political stories of the year. READ »

Popularity for FDP plummets further

Politics: 21 Dec 11
Support for Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) has slumped to a dismal two percent in the wake a high-profile resignation, according to an opinion poll released on Wednesday. READ »

Pirate blackmails colleagues with sex tape

Politics: 16 Dec 11
One member of the Berlin Pirate Party, which spectacularly entered the German political firmament this year, has waged a bizarre sex tape blackmailing campaign against fellow party members. READ »

Scorn for 'Googleberg’s' new EU internet role

Science & Technology: 13 Dec 11
Former German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who was dubbed Dr. Googleberg when caught plagiarizing his PhD thesis, has been appointed EU advisor on internet freedom, inviting much derision. READ »

Pirates say 'Arrgh' as support dwindles

Politics: 7 Dec 11
Germany’s upstart Pirate Party seems to be losing the wind from its sails – the latest political opinion poll suggests it is supported by just six percent of voters – down from nine percent a few weeks ago. READ »

Pirate leader says Twitter bitching divisive

Politics: 3 Dec 11
The leader of Germany’s latest political sensation, the Pirate party, has told members to stop airing their differences on Twitter, saying public arguments are divisive. READ »

Scientologists try to board Pirate Party

Politics: 17 Nov 11
Scientologists are trying to join Germany’s upstart Pirate Party, it has emerged, just weeks after it was revealed that two regional party figures had previously belonged to the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD). READ »

Justice minister praises Chaos Computer Club

Science & Technology: 16 Oct 11
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has praised hackers in the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) for bringing to light the scope and capabilities of spyware used by the state to catch criminals. READ »

Two Pirates exposed as former NPD members

Politics: 12 Oct 11
Germany’s upstart Pirate Party is fighting off accusations that right-wing extremists may have infiltrated its ranks, following reports that at least two prominent members once belonged to the far-right National Democratic Party. READ »

Politicians condemn police spyware

Society: 12 Oct 11
The Pirate Party and the Free Democratic Party declared on Wednesday that the use of spyware to track criminals was unconstitutional, but the government said the trojans are always adapted to remain within the law. READ »

Support for Pirate Party surges nationwide

Politics: 9 Oct 11
Just weeks after the Pirate Party’s surprising success in the Berlin state election, support for the upstart political outfit has surged to nine percent in a new national poll. READ »

Survey shows Pirates sailing full speed ahead

Politics: 28 Sep 11
After their surprise success in Berlin’s state election, Germany’s Pirate Party has started to navigate national interest as well. According to a survey published Wednesday, the Pirates have captured seven percent of the electorate. READ »

SPD and Greens see coalition hope in Berlin

Politics: 24 Sep 11
Nearly a week after the Berlin state election and hours of talks, all the indications point towards the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD) forming a coalition with the Greens. READ »

Most Germans oppose increased euro bail-out

Business & Money: 23 Sep 11
As their politicians prepare for next Thursday’s parliamentary vote on extending the euro rescue fund, a survey has found that a clear majority of Germans do not want them to decide in favour. READ »

Pirate Party dreams of Bundestag booty

Politics: 20 Sep 11
After their stunning success in Berlin’s recent state vote, Germany’s Pirate Party says it has a new ambitious goal: Entering the Bundestag after the 2013 federal election. READ »

Rookie Pirate politicians dazzled by success

Politics: 19 Sep 11
The upstart Pirate Party scored a big win in Berlin's state elections on Sunday, gaining 15 seats in the state parliament. As Moises Mendoza found, its young members are both enthusiastic about and dazzled by their success. READ »

Pirates shake up German political landscape

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Sep 11
Free wireless internet and public transport; voting rights for over-14s: just some of the policies of the Pirate Party, which Sunday spectacularly won its first seats in a German state parliament. READ »

SPD wins Berlin vote as Pirates celebrate

Politics: 18 Sep 11
The centre-left Social Democrats won Berlin’s state election on Sunday, setting up a likely coalition with the Greens. The upstart Pirate Party sailed easily into parliament. READ »

Berlin goes to the polls

Politics: 18 Sep 11
Voting began in Berlin on Sunday for a state election expected to yield yet another setback for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her governing coalition. READ »

Berliners look leftwards as Pirates set sail

Politics: 16 Sep 11
Berliners go to the polls on Sunday, with indications they will re-elect Social Democratic Mayor Klaus Wowereit yet force him to ditch coalition partners The Left for the Greens. The Pirate Party might also sail into parliament. READ »

Cabinet moves to erase child porn sites

National: 6 Apr 11
The centre-right coalition cabinet has decided to remove online child pornography, burying an earlier initiative to block it by former Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, dubbed “Censorsula” by internet activists. READ »

A nation of free thinkers

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 11
Germans love free thinkers, but they're apparently not so hot on free speech. The reactions to the Giffords shooting in Arizona have revived the spectre of anti-Americanism, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel. READ »

Tauss leaves Pirate Party after child pornography conviction

Politics: 31 May 10
Former parliamentarian Jörg Tauss, the most prominent member of the German Pirate Party, has resigned from the party following his conviction for possessing child pornography last week. READ »

Former MP Tauss sentenced for child porn

Politics: 28 May 10
A Karlsruhe district court handed former Social Democratic parliamentarian Jörg Tauss a 15-month suspended sentence on Friday for the possession of child pornography. READ »

Former MP Tauss faces court on child porn charges

National: 18 May 10
Former Social Democratic parliamentarian Jörg Tauss will face a Karlsruhe district court on Tuesday on suspicion of possession and distribution of child pornography. READ »

Pirate Party protests 'naked' scanners in their underpants

Politics: 11 Jan 10
Scantily clad Pirate Party supporters demonstrated over the weekend at several German airports to show their opposition to controversial “naked” scanners planned for security checks. READ »

Pirate Party fires broadside at German political establishment

Politics: 28 Sep 09
While it didn’t get enough votes to enter parliament, one of Germany's newest parties, the swashbuckling Pirate Party, took a surprising sixth place in the national election on Sunday. READ »

Flash mob greets Merkel at Hamburg rally

Politics: 19 Sep 09
In an election campaign described by many as Germany’s most boring ever, a flash mob provided comic relief Friday evening by greeting Chancellor Angela Merkel at a rally with exaggerated enthusiasm, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. READ »

Prosecutors charge MP Tauss in child porn case

Politics: 9 Sep 09
State prosecutors in Karlsruhe said Wednesday they had filed charges against Jörg Tauss, Germany's only MP for the Pirate Party, on suspicion of possession and distribution of child pornography. READ »

Prosecutors planning child porn charges against Tauss

Politics: 21 Jul 09
State prosecutors in Karlsruhe said they have finished their investigation and plan to file charges against former Social Democratic MP Jörg Tauss for alleged possession of child pornography, daily Bild reported on Tuesday. READ »

Twenty-nine parties set for upcoming national ballot

Politics: 17 Jul 09
German voters will be able to choose between a staggering 29 parties in this year’s national election on September 27, the federal election committee said on Friday. READ »

Tauss becomes first 'Pirate' in parliament after leaving SPD

Politics: 21 Jun 09
Social Democratic MP Jörg Tauss has left his party and is now the first member of the Pirate Party in the Bundestag, ignoring calls that he step down from parliament. READ »

Violets, Pirates and Newropeans look for attention in EU vote

Politics: 5 Jun 09
Voters in Germany will be faced with a mind-boggling 32 political parties when they head to the polls this Sunday for the European elections. The Local has picked out few of the most colourful contenders. READ »

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