Germany’s AfD lurches further to the right with new top candidate duo

Germany’s Green party has confirmed co-leader Annalena Baerbock as its candidate to succeed Angela Merkel at September’s crunch election, with the membership backing her candidacy with 98.5% of the vote. The vote came at a party congress convened to decide…

Sunday marked the party congress of Germany’s embattled Social Democrats (SPD), with the party showing a united front and serving to affirm the position of Finance Minister Olaf Scholz as the SPD’s candidate for the chancellorship. Scholz was confirmed as…

For decades, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have been at the heart of Europe’s so-called “lignite triangle” which produces most of the continent’s coal-based electricity. But with climate change now a top political priority, the priority is shifting to renewables.

Germany pledges to become carbon-neutral by 2045. Germany has announced plans to become carbon neutral by 2045, in a landmark shift in climate policy driven by a recent constitutional court ruling demanding better defined emissions targets after 2030. German Finance…

Germany’s shift towards digitalisation due to the coronavirus pandemic has come with a significant rise in cybercrime, according to a report by the country’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). EURACTIV Germany reports.