Lars Klingbeil has rapidly risen to become one of his country’s most influential politicians. But the hard part is just ...

“Pivotal moment” is an understatement for what Romania will go through this weekend, as the country decides between two starkly different presidential candidates: the centrist, pro-EU mayor of ...

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

The balance of majoritarian and proportional elements in the federal parliament offers a model the world should look upon with envy.' ...

Donald Trump is a polarizing figure in the United States. He has also succeeded in dividing the world. Particularly with the tariffs he instituted on “Liberation Day,” Trump has transformed the ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a tougher migration policy a central plank of his election campaign and ordered more border ...

Mali's military junta has banned all political parties, silenced dissent, and delayed elections. As repression deepens, analysts warn that the country's democratic future hangs in the balance.

Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, outlined his government's agenda to lawmakers in Germany's parliament, the ...

The government is a centrist parliamentary coalition. To undo its predecessor’s democratic backsliding, it needs the ...