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The traffic light coalition between SPD, The Greens, and FDP was a first in German history. The 2021 German federal election resulted in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) emerging as the strongest party in the Bundestag, with 25.71% of the vote (206 seats out of 736).
The German economic crisis is a significant downturn of Germany's economy that marked a dramatic reversal of its previous "labour market miracle" period of 2005–2019. The country, which had been considered to be Europe's economic powerhouse in prior decades, became the worst-performing major economy globally in 2023 with a 0.3% contraction, followed by minimal growth in 2024 leaning on ...
8 January – Farmers block highway access roads in parts of Germany, launching a week of protests against a government plan to remove tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture. [2] 10 January – Protests are held across Germany calling for a ban of Alternative for Germany in the wake of the Meeting of right-wing extremists at Potsdam in 2023 ...
The 20% tariffs on Europe signalled by Trump during his campaign could lead Germany's export-dependent economy to shrink as much as 1.5% in 2027 and 2028, a report by German economic institute IW ...
The German economy, Europe's largest, also shrank for all of 2024 by 0.2%, the second straight year of declining output. And the outlook for this year isn't much better.
Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany in Thuringia on Sunday under one of its hardest-right figures, Björn Hö
German economic crisis. Germany's largest steelmaker conglomerate, ThyssenKrupp, announces plans to layoff 11,000 workers, including 5,000 in Europe, by 2030. Disasters and accidents. 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season. Sixteen people are killed and six others are missing in flash floods caused by Tropical Low 01U in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Originally scheduled for 28 September 2025, the elections were brought forward due to the collapse of the governing coalition during the 2024 German government crisis. It is the fourth [1] snap election in the history of post-war Germany after those in 1972, 1983 and 2005.