Germany's Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, late on Thursday extended four overseas missions of the country's armed forces, just weeks before the parliamentary election on February 23. The German Navy will continue to participate in the European Union military mission in the Red Sea aimed at protecting the important maritime shipping route

Germany's Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, unanimously passed a law late on Thursday that extends maternity leave protections to women who suffer a miscarriage after the 13th week of pregnancy.

When the CDU motions passed on Wednesday evening, by four votes, an eerie silence hung for a moment over the Bundestag chamber. Then AfD parliamentarians began applauding what they see as the first chink of light in the CDU’s so-called “firewall” against political co-operation with them.

Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU and Olaf Scholz for the SPD, from left, prior the German federal Bundestag elections in February,

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made common cause with fascists to help an authoritarian and racist motion achieve a breakthrough.

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an anti-migration motion through parliament.

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of mps approved a radical five-point plan to curb irreg

A commission of German experts from politics, business and science is calling on the next government to engage in strategic cooperation with the countries of the so-called Global South, with labour migration a key issue.

Germany’s expansion of onshore wind is at risk of a drastic slowdown, with proposed amendments to energy legislation threatening about 1,000 projects, an industry group said.

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor in February's election, is making waves by agreeing to work with the far-right AfD on immigration rules.

"We must never fail again the way we failed in Afghanistan," said Schahina Gambir, a 23- year-old Green Party parliamentarian. She was on the Enquete Commission, which for two and a half years scrutinized the ultimately unsuccessful international mission in Afghanistan that operated from 2001 to 2021.