German universities are facing the biggest austerity programme of the postwar era. State governments in Berlin and across the ...

The police have recently recorded more and more crimes involving knives. Threats are often made, sometimes stabbed. Stricter ...

The SPD and CDU will also continue the racist campaign for a police-state launched under the outgoing government after the so-called “Berlin New Year’s Eve events.

For the Berlin wing of the SPD, it is the party's worst result in the post-war period. And with a ten percent drop in turnout at the re-rerun of the elections, it also speaks to a more widespread ...

On Monday, April 24, the 12,000 members of the SPD in Berlin approved it by only 54.3%, which bodes a difficult future for Giffey, who is highly contested in her own party where major maneuvers to ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) must be ready for painful compromises in government, parliamentary group leader Matthias Miersch said at the party's national conference on Saturday. After ...

27 September 2021, Berlin: On the day after the Bundestag elections, Olaf Scholz, the SPD's candidate for chancellor, is on stage at the Willy Brandt Haus. Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa (Photo by ...

The Social Democrats' leaked tax reform proposals, including a pledge to give a 300 bonus to people who don't claim tax rebates by filing returns, have unleashed a torrent of criticism in Germany.

Berlin’s SPD responded with its best weapon, Mr Wowereit’s easy-going manner, his skill at talking to the man-in-the street. While other campaigns warn about crime or promise jobs, ...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) ... which they drafted together with the conservatives CDU/CSU, in Berlin, Germany, April 30, 2025. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner ...

BERLIN, March 4 (Reuters) - The conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to seek a loosening of Germany's debt brake to allow higher defence spending, and to propose the creation of a ...