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| Lidia Gibadło, Kamil Frymark
Following a meeting of European leaders with Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump in Washington (see ‘Washington summit: a tactical success for Ukraine’), Friedrich Merz declared Germany’s readiness to participate in
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| Kamil Frymark
During the Bundestag’s final session before the summer recess, MPs failed to elect three justices to the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG). The vote was postponed until autumn after the SPD’s candidate, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, did not…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
At the extraordinary SPD congress in Berlin (27–29 June), the party elected new leadership. Lars Klingbeil – Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance – assumed the role of co-leader for the third time. Although he ran unopposed, he…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 2 June, the administrative court in Berlin ruled that the return of three Somali nationals – who had been sent back from Frankfurt (Oder) to Poland in early May after expressing their intention to seek asylum in Germany – was unlawful.…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 6 May, in the second round of voting, the Bundestag elected Friedrich Merz (CDU) Germany’s Chancellor, with the support of 325 out of 630 MPs. The repeated vote was necessary, as for the first time in German history a chancellor…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 2 May, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) officially designated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a far-right extremist party, following a four-year review process. In its statement, the BfV highlighted…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 20 December, a 50-year-old Saudi man drove a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, killing at least five people and injuring 200, including 40 who sustained serious or critical injuries.…
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| Kamil Frymark
On 6 November, Olaf Scholz (SPD) dismissed the Minister of Finance and leader of the FDP, Christian Lindner, and announced a snap election. In a statement issued in the evening, he blamed the FDP for breaking up the coalition and announced…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 31 October, Germany’s Minister of Finance and leader of the FDP, Christian Lindner, presented a series of demands aimed at revitalising the German economy. The key demands listed in the unveiled document include: tax reductions for…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 22 September, the SPD, which has governed Brandenburg since 1990, once again secured victory in the state’s legislative assembly (the Landtag) elections. The party of Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke garnered 30.9% of the vote, an increase…