Germany: Ruling parties face another test in Hesse local vote

Voting has started in the German state of Hesse, where nearly 4. 7 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots in local elections on Sunday, marking another test for the country's ruling ...

Merz’s party stumbles into a year of German state elections with a narrow defeat

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party has made a disappointing start to a year packed with German state elections, suffering a narrow defeat in an important industrial region after a prominent candidate ...
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Germany’s Greens have come back to win in Baden-Württemberg

F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only ...

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual ...

Germany Is Pumping Up Its Military Spending. That Worries Its Neighbors.

Soon the country’s armed forces budget could exceed those of Britain and France combined. In Paris, there are concerns that ...

Habermas, the philosopher who shaped Germany's post-war conscience

By Friederike Heine BERLIN, March 14 (Reuters) - Juergen Habermas, best-known for his theory of political consensus-building, shaped the discourse of post-war Germany more than any other popular ...