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AfD Leader Compares Chancellor Merz to GDR Ruler Walter Ulbricht

The remark frames the CDU's policy of isolating the AfD as authoritarian through charged GDR border imagery.

Two Bundestag MPs Marry to Become First Same‑Sex Parliamentary Couple

Müntefering Refuses to Advise Chancellor Merz on Communications

Merkel to Attend CDU Party Congress in Stuttgart on Feb. 20 as Honorary Guest

Greens’ Felix Banaszak Turns to Playboy to Reframe Masculinity and Push Pragmatic Climate Politics

AfD Youth Reboot Forms Bavarian Branch in Greding as Schmid Claims Chair

Babylon Berlin Wraps Filming on Final Season Set in Early 1933

Berlin's Oldest Resident, Gertrud Oertel, Turns 111

Merkel Not on Guest List for Merz’s 70th as CDU/CSU Plans Reichstag Reception

US Files Say Strauß Offered Anonymized Information to Washington in 1980 as Family Disputes 'Informant' Label

CDU Picks Peter Karst as Surprise Candidate for Hannover Mayor 2026

Müntefering Attributes SPD Decline to Lafontaine and Flags European Security Threats

Cem Özdemir Secures Green Party Nomination for Baden-Württemberg’s 2026 Election

Friedrich Merz Confirmed as German Chancellor After Unprecedented Second Vote

Angela Merkel Reflects on Leadership and Endorses Friedrich Merz’s Enthusiasm Ahead of Transition

Volker Wissing Reveals the Story Behind Iconic 2021 Ampel Coalition Selfie

Julia Klöckner Nominated as Next Bundestag President

Bernhard Vogel, Former Minister-President of Two German States, Dies at 92

Sahra Wagenknecht's BSW Faces Challenges Ahead of Bundestag Election

Merkel Criticizes Merz Over AfD Cooperation in Migration Vote