Move sets up duel between CDU chief and SPD incumbent Olaf Scholz in 2025 poll
Opposition politicians riled by top government officials caught unaware of talks with Italian lender
Polls find centre-left politician is least popular chancellor since German reunification
Berlin plans to carry out checks at all land frontiers in a bid to stem illegal migration
Berlin ‘naive’ to put key lender to Mittelstand companies on the line, says Verdi
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government steps up response to demand for tougher line on irregular immigration
Good results for the far-right AfD in regional elections came as VW dealt a blow to manufacturing jobs
More than three decades after the end of communist rule, the victory of the AfD in a state election in the east underlines a lingering political divide
Incident comes on anniversary of 1972 Olympic Games terror attacks in city
Two state election results force conservative CDU into awkward negotiations with ex-Communist Sahra Wagenknecht
Alternative for Germany won its first regional election but still has no viable path to govern
Even outside government, the AfD can exert a pernicious influence
Ghosts from the former GDR stalk an increasingly polarised region
Olaf Scholz says AfD is ‘damaging’ country after its win in eastern state
Alternative for Germany wins a regional election for the first time since WWII.
Poll delivers disastrous results for parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition government
Far-right Alternative for Germany party has upended political logic in regional elections
Political and economic ills are growing in bloc’s two main states as the next five-year leadership cycle starts in Brussels
Refugee advocacy groups criticise expulsion of 28 convicted criminals to country that has no diplomatic ties with Berlin
Industry groups say AfD’s success deters immigrants that the region badly needs
Measures, which include a ban on knives at public events, follow outrage over terror attack in western city last week
Three parties in coalition government set to be given a drubbing on Sunday by frustrated voters
Call for dialogue with opposition and regions follows deadly knife attack by a suspected Syrian national
Also in this newsletter: Bulgaria calls its seventh general election in three years
Far right seizes on arrest of Syrian immigrant suspected of killing three people ahead of regional elections
