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The program has its origins in the Bundestag Internship Program (BIP), which only accepted young graduates from the United States. 20 of these scholarships were awarded between 1986 and 1988. In 1989 a similar internship program with France was established on a reciprocal basis, allowing German graduates to also experience parliamentary ...
This is a list of candidates for the 2025 German federal election. 29 political parties are contesting the election. [1] There are reportedly 1,700 fewer candidates in this election than in 2021. [2] The oldest candidate is 79 and the youngest is 17. [3]
In 2022, more than 1.4 million refugees from Ukraine arrived in Germany, in addition to 244,000 asylum applications being filed. In 2022, over €28B were spent on refugees and asylum seekers by the federal government; €15B were given as aid to states and municipalities, while €13B were spent as foreign aid. In the first four months of 2023 ...
After the failed August 1991 coup attempt in Russia, defense specialists identified the need for an institution such as the Marshall Center. The United States European Command [6] began to develop proposals to expand defense and security contacts with the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia in order to positively influence the development of security structures ...
The 20th and sitting Bundestag held its first sitting on 26 October 2021. [6] Therefore, the next regular election was to take place on a Sunday between 31 August 2025 and 26 October 2025. In August 2024, the Federal Cabinet initially recommended 28 September 2025 as the date of the election, which was approved by President Frank-Walter ...
January 12 – The Alternative for Germany (AfD) leadership votes to formally replace the Young Alternative for Germany (JA) as its youth organisation. [ 6 ] January 15 – The Karlsruhe branch of the AfD initiates a campaign by distributing flyers resembling flight tickets labeled Abschiebetickets (deportation tickets) in mailboxes, prompting ...
Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together with Lars Klingbeil, who joined her in December 2021. After Olaf Scholz was elected chancellor in 2021, the SPD became the leading party of the federal government, which the SPD formed with the Greens and the Free Democratic Party, after the 2021 federal election.
The federal government of Germany often consisted of a coalition of a major and a minor party, specifically CDU/CSU and FDP or SPD and FDP, and from 1998 to 2005 SPD and Greens. From 1966 to 1969, from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2021, the federal government consisted of a coalition of the two major parties, called a grand coalition. [1]