If Germany is to pay for much needed investments in defence and infrastructure, this needs to change, reckons Clemens Fuest, ...

Emirhan A., a 14-year-old, was arrested in Cologne for joining the Islamic State and allegedly planning the attack in its ...

For more than ten years, Peter Fitzek has been at the head of a fantasy state calling itself the "Kingdom of Germany." A spokeswoman for Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office said the founder of ...

Germany’s wind and solar power output has slumped to the lowest in ten years since the start of the year, at just 80 TWh over the first four months of 2025, data from climate think tank Ember ...

Germany has suggested that it could boost defence spending to 5% of GDP, putting the country in line with US President Donald Trump's demands. Trump has long urged NATO partners to increase their ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls. By Clay Risen Reporting from Berlin Ever since the German ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Recently, the German government announced that it is going to label or maybe relabel the Alternative für Deutschland—the Alternative for Germany—the conservative party that has an ...

People take part in a rally at the Brandenburg Gate as part of the nationwide day of action "No more excuses - ban the AfD now!", called by the alliance "Together against the right". Fabian Sommer ...

Berlin's new government is marking VE Day and the end of WWII. DW rounds up the latest news from Germany. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US President Donald Trump ended their 30-minute ...

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office ...

It's beginning to look a lot like football, or Christmas, depending on who you ask. The NFL's latest holiday takeover delivered last season with a doubleheader, exclusively on Netflix. This year ...