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, corruption allegations are threatening the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as well as its sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) ahead of elections in multiple German states. The CDU is the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been in power for 15 years. However, this scandal is coming just months before she planned to step down in September. BBC News notes that with Merkel leaving office, strong CDU leadership is needed if the party is to pick up the torch from the chancellor.
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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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On February 19, a 43-year-old man killed nine people and injured six others in a hookah bar in Hanau, a city located just east of Frankfurt after allegedly posting a racist manifesto online.
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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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A recent trial was held in Germany over the alleged murder of a five year-old Yazidi girl who was chained outside the house of a member of the Islamic State and died of thirst.
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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.
Following the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, or the ‘Brexit’ vote, Britain and Germany are seeing a large uptick in applications for German citizenship by descendants of those who fled Nazi rule, reports Al Jazeera.
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The former Catalonian President, Carles Puigdemont, was detained in Germany’s northern most state of Schlewsig-Holstein while traveling from Finland to Belgium to present himself to authorities.
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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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