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Two weeks after the far-right AfD won its first major regional election in Germany, two more eastern states vote this Sunday. Polls have just opened in the capital, Berlin, and the largely rural state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Berlin, Jörg Taszman.
Voting in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is expected to bring gains for the far-right AfD party and could determine whether Chancellor Friedrich Merz can hold on to power. Follow DW live.
The Germans went to the polls on Sunday in two regional elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where the progress of the far right and the radical left could undermine the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, at the bottom of the polls.
About 3.8 million people in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are eligible to vote on Sunday.
Germany is gearing up for two more pivotal state elections on Sunday: in the capital Berlin and in the largely rural region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. All eyes are on the far-right AfD, which after recording its best ever result in the recent Saxony-Anhalt elections, is hoping to once again make sweeping gains. The anti-immigration party's surging popularity is proving challenging for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and both elections are expected to further test his leadership. Story by Eliza Herbert.
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine destroyed the once-close relationship between Moscow and Berlin. Yet the far-right AfD is calling for a normalization of relations.
On Friday, Berlin announced measures to reduce the price of fuel, a few days after Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to make a gesture for consumers affected by the price boom. These measures were announced before two regional elections at high risk for power, weakened by a recent victory of the far-right AfD party.
Germany will cut taxes on gasoline and diesel by about 17 cents a litre from October, the government said Friday. The move comes ahead of state elections in the capital Berlin and the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats are expected to be soundly defeated.
Bloody May, student sit-ins and the squatter movement: Berlin has long been a hotbed for working-class organizing and radical left-wing politics.
Parties are campaigning for a last day ahead of polls in Mecklenburg-Vorpomerania and Berlin. And an association responsible for German sea ports says they are at high risk from cyberattacks and sabotage. DW has more.
A video claiming to show AfD postal ballots being destroyed has gone viral ahead of Berlin's September 20 election. DW Fact Check examines the footage, the accounts sharing it and how widely it is really being viewed.
The results of the Berlin election are as hard to predict as ever. Three parties are vying for first place, including the socialist Left Party and the far-right AfD. But one issue is most important to Berliners.
A visibly shaken but also determined Friedrich Merz spoke in Berlin about the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt and the CDU's bitter defeat. He insisted on sticking to his reforms.
This announcement comes a week after Germany announced the closure of the Russian House in Berlin, accusing Moscow of an incident involving a drone at Leipzig/Halle airport.
Shortly before Berlin's state parliamentary election, the hacker group Rhysida stole data, tried to extort the Berlin Senate and published the data on the dark web after their attempt failed.
A quarter of Berlin residents will have no say in the German capital's city-state election because they lack citizenship. That's the highest proportion of residents excluded from the election yet, and many are unhappy.
The results of the Berlin election are as hard to predict as ever. Three parties are vying for first place, including the socialist Left Party and the far-right AfD. But one issue is most important to Berliners.
A decade after the terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market, a new German miniseries looks into the institutional failures that allowed the deadly truck rampage to happen.
