Germany

Berlin played host to the 9th annual Creative Bureaucracy Festival this week, where highly-motivated public service workers explained why a healthy democracy needs a functioning state.

This year’s ILA Berlin Air Show is breaking records, primarily because of the booming defense sector, which is reaping billions in contracts as a result of wars and crises.

Germany was required to incorporate the EU Pay Transparency Directive into its national law, but it has missed the deadline.

Germany’s research minister Dorothee Bär says German students’ situation is “very privileged” and has rejected reform of the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG), in the process turning many students against her.

A neo-Nazi candidate surprisingly lost by small margin in a local election in the eastern state of Saxony. Many are relieved, yet concern remains.

Russia invades Ukraine, Israel and the US attack Iran, civil wars in Africa — does this mean goodbye to international law? German researchers paint a grim picture in their latest annual Peace Report.

An unusual forum for exchange between German conservative and Greens politicians emerged 30 years ago in the form of the “pizza connection.” Now that format is being revived in a changed political landscape.

The war waged by the US and Israel against Iran has now lasted 100 days. In that time, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has drastically changed his stance on the war.

Austria and Portugal have won seats on the UN Security Council, ending Germany’s 40-year streak. DW examines the foreign policy questions raised by Berlin’s defeat.

The federal commissioner for anti-discrimination has said the government’s reform plans, the first in 20 years, are inadequate and won’t provide the resources and funding needed to combat discrimination.