Germany

On his first full day in office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lashed out at the Trump administration for raising concerns about the state of democracy in the European nation following the green light to spy on the opposition AfD party.

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to keep the American intelligence community from cooperating with Germany over its “police state” activities against the anti-mass migration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Centre-right leader Merz is the new Chancellor of Germany on the second time of trying, ten weeks after an inconclusive national election.

AfD called for fresh national elections after, for the first time in history, the would-be next chancellor failed to be elected by Parliament.

Sovereigntists launch lawsuit against political police force even as some push for govt to go further and ban the opposition altogether. 

German police officers may face expulsion if they are found to be members of the populist AfD party after a spy agency classified the party as being “right-wing extremist”.

The Trump administration has accused Berlin of acting in a tyrannical manner after a top intelligence agency officially branded the populist AfD party as an “extremist” group over its stance against mass migration, paving the way for more government spying against the right-wing party.

The government of Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday declassified over 1,850 official documents detailing the arrival of Nazi German officials to Argentina and their actions in the South American nation following World War II.

In Paris, the bells of the recently restored Notre Dame rung out and football matches across Italy are cancelled in mourning. 

German police in a spa town north of Frankfurt on Sunday were expanding a manhunt for a suspect still on the loose after two people were fatally shot a day earlier.

A German palliative care doctor has been accused of killing at least 15 of his patients and is suspected in at least 95 more cases.

The U.S. will do whatever it takes to get peace in Ukraine as long as “either side or both” actually engage in the process, said Rubio.

Emergency services and got scientists raided farmhouse in hunt for improvised lab allegedly producing a potent biological weapon.

The “end of history” is over and Europe is experiencing a “transatlantic crisis”, says Ursula von der Leyen.

German court fined man for slipping into a VIP convoy for Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2023 and giving him a hug.

Germany’s outgoing far-left foreign minister has been accused of ignoring the will of the public by using her last weeks in office to ship planeloads of more people from Afghanistan and Pakistan into the country.

German police in Cologne on Sunday detained five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who had tried to climb the city’s famous cathedral.

The knifeman who killed a German man in Berlin on Saturday has been identified as a 43-year-old Syrian, the public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday.

The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has topped a national poll for the first time in the party’s history, as support for the incoming government continues to slide.

Coalition negotiations to form the next government of Germany concluded on Wednesday, paving the way for another establishment government in Berlin as Chancellor Friedrich Merz capitulated to the election-losing leftist party on key issues including immigration, energy, and the economy.

Germany has been accused of violating basic tenets of Western values yet again, as a news editor was convicted by a court for posting a meme mocking the government’s “hatred” of free speech.

Fear of Russian revanchism may set back decades of progress by European governments to erode individual responsibility.

France’s trade minister said the European Union’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be “extremely aggressive” amid increasingly heated rhetoric from Paris.

Six weeks after voters in Germany went to the polls for the federal elections, there appears to be growing dissatisfaction with the outcome, as more Germans shift their support to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Visibility was as low and neither ship involved had a dedicated lookout at the time of the smash, accident investigators say. 

Germany’s outgoing Chancellor voices the frustrations felt across the Euro ruling class at President Donald Trump.

A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced on Wednesday.

If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.

Crimes like murder, manslaughter, and rape increased in Germany last year, police statistics reveal, with the number of ‘non-German’ suspects increasing as well.

Alternative for Germany leader Alice Weidel has accused the supposedly conservative Christian Democrats of abandoning their promises of clamping down on migration following the election.

Police raids in six states against a group authorities say “is part of nternational network aiming to overthrow the government in Eritrea.”

Prosecutors in Germany have charged five members of a leading radical climate activist collective over allegations of forming a criminal organisation.

Foreigners now make up at least one in three people considered long-term unemployed in Germany after soaring by over 40 per cent since 2018. 

Support for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has soared to its highest level in over a year as the recent election-winning centre-right party continues caving to the demands of leftist parties.

Germany’s incoming chancellor is facing accusations of betraying voters after bending to the leftist demands on spending and climate to push forward fresh defence spending.

A woman on a tram in Germany suffered life-threatening injuries after she was doused with gasoline and set on fire by an attacker in the small city of Gera.