Olaf Scholz

Germany’s vice chancellor compared the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the impact President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs will have on the E.U. and threatened to “arm wrestle” the U.S. in a trade battle.

The exit polls for the federal elections in Germany predict that the neo-liberal Christian Democrats have come out on top, with the support of around one in three voters, with the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming in a strong second place at nearly 20 per cent, beating out all members of the former ‘traffic light’ coalition government of likely outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The leftist ‘traffic light’ coalition government in Berlin collapsed just hours after Donald Trump’s victory in November, sparking snap elections in Germany that will likely define the shape of European politics in the years to come.

Nearly half of German voters support Berlin deploying troops as part of a broader peacekeeping force in Ukraine after a potential Trump-negotiated settlement between Kyiv and Moscow.

American broadcaster CBS followed German police as they raided homes for speech crimes, such as posting a “racist cartoon” on the internet after U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticised censorship across Europe.

You don’t scare us. That was the message from European Union (E.U.) chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

The leader of the centrist Christian Democratic Union doubled down on his vow to not form a coalition with the populist Alternative for Germany as he squared off with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a debate held two weeks before Germans head to the polls for a federal election.

In what may serve as a pivotal moment of the federal election campaign and perhaps the future of German politics as a whole, the ‘firewall’ baring establishment parties in Berlin from working with the AfD broke down on Wednesday as Angela Merkel’s former party partnered with the populist party on a vote calling for migration restrictions.

Federal Election poll sees dramatic shifts, with the governing left-globalists experiencing a “statistically significant decline”.

Germany’s Chancellor tacitly compares Trump Greenland plan to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while France says it offered to deploy the army.

Denmark on Monday announced a $2 billion investment in Arctic security, implicitly acknowledging President Donald Trump’s criticism of the region’s vulnerability to Russian aggression — a vulnerability Trump wanted to address by taking control of Greenland.

A row over Germany’s open borders immigration system threatens to upend the political status quo ahead of the February general election, as the leader of Angela Merkel’s former party opened the door to passing restrictions with the help of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, sparking panic among the Berlin establishment.

The likely next Chancellor of Germany has categorically ruled out a coalition between his supposedly centre-right conservative party and the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), opting instead to partner with a leftist party.

Left-wing German leader talks tough after yet another migrant attack, expressing outrage the government — that he leads — did nothing.

The globalist “managerial” philosophy favoured by the European Union has lost, and Trump has “won”, a panellist at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos admitted.

Chancellor Scholz said Musk’s support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable,” adding to his previous criticism.

It is time for democracy to find answers to economic stagnation, mass migration, and wars in Europe and the Middle East, the President said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has developed a habit of biting the hand that feeds, the NATO Secretary General cautions. 

The leader of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has surged to the top of the polls of preferred chancellors for the upcoming February elections.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence in parliament on Monday thereby paving the way for early elections in the European Union’s most populous member and biggest economy on 23 February next year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he’s open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country´s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in the war.

Officials in Germany were provided with intelligence detailing a Ukrainian plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines months before the attack took place, but the warnings were ignored and no preventative measures were taken, an investigation has claimed. 

An open revolt has broken out in Berlin against Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with members of his own left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) pushing for him to be replaced as their lead candidate in the upcoming elections.

The German government has collapsed, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has picked this moment to reach out to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Germany will elect its next government seven months early as the precarious “progressive coalition” of left-wing and centrists collapsed.

President Elect Donald J. Trump spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with the aim of restoring peace to the European continent and bringing about an end to the war in Ukraine.

The leftist-led coalition government in Germany collapsed on Wednesday evening over budget disagreements and the return of Donald Trump, culminating in Finance Minister Christian Lindner being dismissed and his Free Democrats chucked out of the coalition.

Victory plan openly criticised by a NATO leader for first time, with Ukraine joining alliance rejected out-of-hand by Chancellor Scholz.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday held wide-ranging discussions.

(AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced hope Friday that the war with Russia will end next year, speaking during a visit to Berlin to ask for sustained military support. As Ukraine faces a gruelling third winter at war, Zelensky

The entire federal executive board of the German Green party resigned on Wednesday after a string of disastrous regional election results as the leftist party is haemorrhaging voters amid growing opposition to core pillars of its platform such as the green agenda, support for the war in Ukraine, and open borders.

Germany’s army rushed an Iris-T air-defence system into service on its own soil for the first time Wednesday having delivered several of the sophisticated systems to war-torn Ukraine to take down Russian rockets, drones and missiles mid-flight.

A “software error” in one state was blamed for changing the initial official results, taking two seats away from the right. 

Populist anti-mass migration parties made significant gains in state elections in Germany, with the right-wing AfD projected to have won in Thuringia.

Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power.