Here you will find news and analysis on political persecution, repression and political violence against the opposition in Germany.
The images emerging from Berlin’s government district carry immense symbolic weight—albeit in a direction very different from what its creators…
A recent decision by the Saxon Higher Administrative Court (OVG) marks a severe shift in German administrative practice, raising fundamental…
On July 20, 1932, Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen, backed by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, dealt a decisive blow…
The 5-percent electoral threshold (Fünf-Prozent-Hürde) is the most well-known yet omnipresent instrument of the German federal electoral system. Officially cited…
Rather than tackling the country’s urgent crises—economic decline, a failed energy transition, and rampant bureaucracy—with constructive solutions, the federal government…
A landslide election victory, a historic result, and an unmistakable mandate from millions of citizens: the election result in Saxony-Anhalt,…
Whenever an established governing majority runs out of political answers, the hour of the prohibition argument strikes. The recent joint…
A spectre is haunting the corridors of German industry associations and trade fair companies: the fear of genuine, unpredictable discourse.…
All around the world, people celebrate the summer solstice — including in Saxony-Anhalt. Shortly before the upcoming state election in…
The methods of political disciplining and the exclusion of dissidents have a long, inglorious tradition in German history. A particularly…
When political engagement costs a job: The case of Martina Müller highlights how church labor law is increasingly used as…
On February 5, 2020, the Landtag of Thuringia elected FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich as Minister-President of the Free State in…