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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 ...
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 ...
In June 2023, Alice Weidel announced that Alternative for Germany (AfD) would nominate a candidate for chancellor for the first time. [14] At the end of September 2024, the two chairmen Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel agreed that Weidel herself should lead the party into the election campaign as candidate for chancellor. [ 15 ]
The 2025 German Football League season is the 46rd edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany. The regular season will start on 10 May and is expected to end on 7 September 2024, followed by the play-offs. [1] [2] The season will be concluded with the GFL Bowl, which is planned to be held on 11 October 2025.
In East Germany, it merged with the KPD under duress to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In West Germany , the SPD became one of two major parties alongside the CDU/CSU . In its Godesberg Program of 1959, the SPD dropped its commitment to Marxism, becoming a big tent party of the centre-left.
Scholz announced pursuing a snap election to be held in early 2025. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On 16 December 2024, Scholz lost a vote of no confidence . On the same day, he requested the President of Germany to dissolve the Bundestag; the President has 21 days to approve the request and, if so, call new elections.
A list of German politicians and party members by political party: List of Alternative for Germany politicians; List of Bavarian Christian Social Union politicians; List of Bavarian People's Party politicians; List of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht politicians; List of German Centre Party politicians; List of German Christian Democratic Union ...
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 .