The Latest Breaking News from Germany

The eastern German regions of Saxony and Thuringia are holding elections this coming Sunday and the far-right AfD party is ahead in the polls. Its leaders are proposing a raft of measures designed to limit immigration and the arrival of more asylum seekers in their regions. If they win power,…

‘Our security counts,’ German interior minister says as government confirms those deported are convicted criminals.

Germany on Friday reversed a policy to stop returning migrants to Afghanistan due to human rights concerns after the Taliban took power in 2021. The first group of 28 Afghans who were “convicted offenders”, according to German authorities, boarded a Kabul-bound Friday as the Germany’s coalition government faces pressure to…

Germany's recent deportations of Afghan nationals post-Taliban rule spark security concerns and political tensions.

Germany has deported Afghan nationals for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power

If the British prime minister wants a closer relationship with the EU, he needs to go to Brussels, not just Berlin and Paris says the German historian Helene von Bismarck

More than a century on, the route from Konstanz to Como across lakes and Swiss mountains must also contend with traffic, but it still inspires a novel

A radical far-left politician who wants to make peace with Russia's Vladimir Putin looks set to play a key role in regional elections in the former East Germany on Sunday.

Editorial: The prime minister’s talks in Berlin and Paris will help to reset relations. But the most urgent challenge is to combat populism together