Following the announcement of the retirement of Angela Merkel, Germany held a federal election on September 26, 2021, the first without its Chancellor in almost 16 years. According to the Guardian Germany uses a system in which voters cast two votes, one directly for a representative and another for a party.
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In Germany, thousands of protestors gathered at the capital on Saturday, August 29 with signs suggesting COVID-19 is not a serious, or even real, issue.
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November 9, 2019 marked the 30-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite reunification in the 1990s, an invisible barrier still exists between eastern and western Germany.
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Germany’s mammoth political leader, Angela Merkel, announced on October 29 that she will not seek re-election as German Chancellor in 2021. Merkel also stated that she would step down as the head of her political party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), at its conference in December.
On the March 14, Angela Merkel was sworn in as German chancellor for the fourth time, but there is an increasing dissatisfaction among Germans concerning her leadership.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party emerged victorious in national parliamentary elections, but suffered a larger than expected net loss of seats due to the rise of the far right-wing Alternative for Germany part
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If anarchy begets hegemony, then to keep the global peace, the international order requires an adult in the room, a role the president of the United States now seems incapable of filling. Luckily for everyone else, China and Germany are ready and willing to audition.
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55 people killed at a local of the Oromo, one of the largest minority groups involved in protests against the government.
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The election results in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the state represented by Angela Merkel when she was first elected to the Bundestag, could foretell more losses for her party in next year’s general election.
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“Every attack that targets Turkey’s guests will be punished,” vowed Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
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