Germany Elections

After extended back-and-forth, Germany's center-right CDU/CSU and center-left SPD have finally hammered out a coalition agreement. Friedrich Merz is likely to be the country's next chancellor.

Shortly after the release of exit polls regarding Germany’s elections on Sunday evening, Costa announced the convening of an emergency European Council meeting on March 6, 2025.

Athens is particularly interested in the policies the new German government will pursue on migration, as they will have a direct impact on Greece.

Germany's opposition conservatives win election while the far-right AfD bloc surges to 2nd place. Merz vows EU independence from US as coalition talks loom, leaving Scholz as caretaker.

Far right AfD posts strong second-place showing, its best post-war performance

If, as widely expected, Friedrich Merz emerges as Germany’s next chancellor, one immediate advantage will be that the governing parties in Athens and Berlin will belong to the same right-of-center political family

German Green MP Lisa Badum spoke to To Vima about the rising popularity of the far-right AFD, possible coalitions, and what she hopes to see in Sunday’s elections.

Polls for Germany’s snap elections show conservatives leading and the far-right gaining ground.

Until recently, all German political foundations maintained offices in Greece.

With a few tweets this week Elon Musk slammed the brakes on U.S. congress’s attempts to avert a government shutdown, and also threw his weight behind Germany’s far right political party.

Germany is headed to early elections, after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence in parliament on Monday. The elections are set to take place on February 23. The German Chancellor headed a minority government after a three-party coalition collapsed in November. His lame-duck government passed bills in the Bundestag (German Parliament) through […]

If Scholz loses the vote, he will join the group of four chancellors who have called for confidence votes after World War II.