German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on his conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) to focus more on the east of the ...

There are still occasional mutters about reigning in global corporations, but they are drowned out by Thatcherite dreams of a Trump/Musk style unit whose “overriding focus will be to reduce the size ...

Hipsters and pensioners who had never before been contacted by canvassers found themselves opening the door to upbeat American-style get ... was solved by Wagenknecht’s departure in 2023. She has ...

In 2023, one of its high-profile leaders, Sahra Wagenknecht, quit and in 2024 ... and unemotional political figures.” It’s a style that has resonated with Die Linke voters such as Lina ...

Germany's left-wing populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance has narrowly failed to win representation in parliament. Or did it? Wagenknecht has said she will challenge the election result in court.

The left-wing conservative BSW party fell just short of the 5% threshold to enter the Bundestag with a nail-biting share of 4.97% of the vote on Sunday. The co-chair and namesake of the Sahra ...

“One of the rare exceptions was a call by the leftist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for a referendum on immigration – but this was more like a desperate attempt to get media attention for a ...

Germany’s left recently split over just this question. The former Left Party spokeswoman Sahra Wagenknecht has in recent years sharply denounced the “lifestyle left” for speaking to the “woke” and ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, top candidate and party leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht BSW alliance, speaks after the first forecasts of the German federal election for the 21st German Bundestag. Jens ...

Germany’s reformed voting system aims to blend British- or American-style single-member constituencies ... the upstart Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, on 4 per cent to 5 per cent.

and the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) – struggling to clear the 5 per cent hurdle for Bundestag representation. If they rally and make it in, that could force any Merz-led coalition to ...