The country’s perennial yearning for reassurance is still dominating discourse — but this time around, it’s likely to be in vain.

Last September, the AfD became Germany’s first far-right party in post-World War II history to win a state election outright, in the eastern region of Thuringia. Bjoern Hoecke, the state’s party leader, has been repeatedly accused of historical revisionism and convicted of using a Nazi slogan at election rallies.

Berlin will try to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Germany's health minister said on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake the foundations on

Germany and Europe should continue on the path of expanding low-carbon energies during the second presidency of Donald Trump, a climate change sceptic, outgoing German vice chancellor Robert Habeck said on Tuesday.

A flurry of moves by newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump prompted consternation, concern and discussion in Germany, as leaders in Berlin tried to navigate Trump's return to the White House after four years.

Habeck, also the minister in charge of Germany's climate action, took the opportunity to address the broader implications of Trump's climate policies, urging Germany and Europe to continue the leadership in developing low-carbon energy technologies, despite challenges posed by the US administration.

The German news agency dpa is reporting that the German ambassador to Washington wrote in a report back to Berlin that he expects Donald Trump to largely undermine the system of democratic checks and balances during his second term.

BERLIN (Reuters) - German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become the next chancellor, said on Thursday he wanted to win back the lost trust of key allies and ensure Berlin is more assertive on the global stage in a speech laying out his foreign policy plans.