It is unclear what will happen next.The German parliament failed to complete one of its more important constitutional tasks ...

Independent justices preside over Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. Germany's more than 20,000 judges are not "bound by ...

Authoritarian governments often try to undermine the independence of supreme courts. As far-right populists gain ground in Germany, the Bundestag has now voted to protect Germany's Constitutional ...

Seeking to enhance Germany's attractiveness as a venue for complex cross-border commercial disputes, the German Justice Ministry is proposing the creation of an all-English-language court. The ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

Germany’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the central part of an electoral reform designed to downsize the country’s increasingly bloated parliament, but overturned a planned change that two ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition failed to secure a parliamentary majority for appointing three judges to Germany's Constitutional Court, delaying the vote amidst plagiarism allegations. The ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that a court ruling against the expulsion by border police of three Somali asylum seekers could restrict his government's ...

Was that really true and if so why couldn’t we do the same? A little research reveals that the position is something like this. The Federal Republic of Germany has a pretty complicated legal system ...

A court in Germany has acquitted Christian Brueckner, the only suspect in the disappearance of Maddie McCann, on unrelated rape and sexual abuse charges.

Far-right German party may threaten democracy, can be spied on, court rules Germany’s far right AfD has been classified as “suspected extremist” since 2021. It is now the second most popular ...

Germany: Court to rule on press freedom for banned magazine Deutsche Welle / Jun 11, 2025, 16:54 IST In July 2024, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser banned Compact magazine.