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Migration "is overshadowing the entire election campaign" ahead of Germany's Feb. 23 election, one candidate told me. I looked at how the issue is playing out in a parliamentary race in Schwerin, a city of 100k in northeastern Germany: politico.eu/article/schwer…

Much of the debate ahead of the Feb. 23 German election has come down to migration. Nowhere is this issue as stark as in Schwerin, a city of 100,000, that's deeply divided over who belongs and who doesn’t. politico.eu/article/schwer…

Five years ago today, a right-wing extremist killed 9 people of immigrant background in Hanau, including 23-year-old Ferhat Unvar. Last fall I spoke with his mother, Serpil Temiz Unvar, about her ongoing struggle against racism: thedial.world/articles/news/…, foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/12/ger…

Germans are heading to the polls in the dead of winter for the first time in more than three decades. I wrote about the challenges of Winterwahlkampf — including politicians buying thermal underwear to keep warm on the campaign trail politico.eu/article/german…

AI-generated content is helping the far-right Alternative for Germany make both sides of its vision — the idyllic, nostalgia-driven future it promises to bring and the dystopian one it’s warning about should others win the election — look startlingly real. politico.eu/article/german…

This is possibly the most consequential German election since WWII, as the world watches on to see how far the country veers to the right. Our reporters are on-the-ground in Berlin to bring you live updates as results come out tonight 👇 ow.ly/9Q0050V4t6s

It's Election Day in Germany! Follow along with POLITICO's live blog: politico.eu/article/german…

Laut der 18-Uhr-Prognose von infratest dimap zur Bundestagswahl liegt die Union mit 29 Prozent vorne, gefolgt von der AfD (19,5 Prozent). Die SPD erreicht 16 Prozent, die Grünen kommen auf 13,5 Prozent. Die Linke erzielt 8,5 Prozent und würde damit in den Bundestag einziehen.

Alice Weidel took her far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to new heights in Sunday's election, nearly doubling the party's support. My profile of Weidel and how she has radicalized alongside her party over the last decade: politico.eu/article/german…

Alice Weidel took the German far right to new heights. Here’s how she did it. politico.eu/article/german…

And that's a wrap — logging off from liveblogging duties for the night. Here's the full recap of election day and night in Germany. Danke und gute Nacht! politico.eu/article/german… #Bundestagswahl2025

German election postmortem from me and Nette Nöstlinger: The inside story of how 31 days made Merz chancellor — and changed Germany forever politico.eu/article/german…

CDU leader Friedrich Merz long believed his party needed to take a harder line on migration. But the attack in Aschaffenburg convinced him it was now or never. His decision that followed completely transformed the final weeks of the election campaign. 🔗 ow.ly/9EPX50V5aft

.Josh Posaner and I looked at what Germany's new governing coalition could mean for Ukraine: politico.eu/article/german…

The far-right AfD is set to become Germany's largest opposition party, with nearly a quarter of the seats in the German Bundestag. Nette Nöstlinger and I looked at what it means in practice, and how it will help give them their biggest stage ever: politico.eu/article/german…

If you didn’t get a chance to read it earlier this week, check out our election postmortem:

Germany's parliament voted today to loosen its debt brake and allow for more borrowing, long a controversial topic in German politics. In 2023, I wrote about the so-called black zero — and efforts to change it — for The Dial Magazine and Foreign Policy: thedial.world/articles/news/…

The US president is attacking his closest allies. His calculation: Germany and other Western countries are weak and must comply. But the US is more vulnerable than Trump believes. welt.de/politik/auslan… Emily Schultheis Philipp Fritz Clea Caulcutt Eli Stokols POLITICO POLITICOEurope

An Orange County library clash distills our bitter political moment: Emily Schultheis went deep on Huntington Beach's book battle politico.com/news/2025/05/1…

MAGA-branded candidates confront their limits abroad, even as far-right surges ow.ly/L7Ah106aBgV