Merz and Germany’s New Government Face a Tricky Challenge: an AfD-Led Opposition
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Merz and Germany’s New Government Face a Tricky Challenge: an AfD-Led Opposition

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ever since the German Parliament building reopened in Berlin in 1999, its second-largest meeting room has been occupied by what had often been Germany’s second-largest party, the Social Democrats. Even the room’s name, the Otto Wels Hall, bears the party’s imprint: Wels led…

Friedrich Merz, Germany’s New Leader, Leaps Into a World of Crises
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Friedrich Merz, Germany’s New Leader, Leaps Into a World of Crises

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two decades ago, before Friedrich Merz came back from the private sector to win the German chancellorship, he accepted an invitation to a gathering of the French Foreign Legion in Corsica. At the last moment, the organizers asked him to arrive on the…

80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember
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80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lockered Gahs, known unofficially as Bud, was a 20-year-old soldier in the U.S. Army who had been fighting for a year when he and his unit first entered the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich in 1945. His unit — the 42nd Infantry…

Far-Right AfD Is Labeled Extremist by Germany’s Intelligence Agency
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Far-Right AfD Is Labeled Extremist by Germany’s Intelligence Agency

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Germany’s domestic intelligence service has classified the far-right Alternative for Germany, which some polls show as the most popular in the country, as an extremist party, the German authorities announced on Friday. The classification, which allows the agency to use more powerful surveillance…

Opinion | This Is No Way to Stop the World’s Trumps
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Opinion | This Is No Way to Stop the World’s Trumps

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Sure enough, Ms. Le Pen’s admirers soon spun the ruling as a tale of malicious muzzling. It was, Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, a “witch hunt” and an example of “lawfare.” But this was not an instance of activist judges arbitrarily abusing…

A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
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A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has…

Opinion | Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Next Chancellor, Is Yesterday’s Man
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Opinion | Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Next Chancellor, Is Yesterday’s Man

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines He enjoyed a steady rise there, notably popularizing the concept of Leitkultur, a set of norms to which every immigrant should submit. But the top prize was blocked by his longstanding rival, Angela Merkel. After losing the leadership to her in a bitter…

Opinion | America and Russia Are on the Same Side Now
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Opinion | America and Russia Are on the Same Side Now

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines During the Cold War, large and influential Communist parties in Western Europe maintained ties with Moscow, ranging from sympathetic to subservient. The United States kept its distance and in many cases supported their opponents financially and politically. Now Europe is confronted with a…

How a Demographic ‘Doom Loop’ Helped Germany’s Far Right
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How a Demographic ‘Doom Loop’ Helped Germany’s Far Right

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote share from four years ago, in the strongest showing for a German far-right party since World War II. Some segments of the party, known as the AfD,…