A familiar old face, Gysi had been the party’s leading media figure back in the 2000s, when the reformed former ruling party of East Germany merged with a left-wing split from the Social Democrats to form Die Linke. Winning 8.8 percent is nothing to ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Express went to Germany to investigate the resurgence of a hateful ideology most thought had been confined to the past.

Young workers and students who want to fight against fascism, militarism and social cuts need a clear understanding of the Left Party, which plays a key role in implementing social cuts and the deportation of refugees,

Germany's would-be next chancellor, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with whom he is trying to form a government plan to throw out restrictive borrowing rules in a fiscal policy sea-change.

Germany's Left Party will vote against a special fund for increased military spending in the next legislature, party leader Ines Schwerdtner said on Tuesday.

Buoyed by an effective grassroots campaign and a youth vote in its favor, the radical left-wing party almost doubled its score in the elections.

Struggling a month ago, the Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s election.

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders said. Far-right parties, which tend to position themselves as populists standing up for ordinary people against a corrupt or co-opted elite, are well placed to appeal to people who have lost faith in the status quo.

Germany's energy and climate policies under CDU in five points: The pace of climate action, transport sector development, energy market, adaptation and EU policy.

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul borrowing rules, a tectonic spending shift that jolted markets on Wednesday on hopes of reviving Europe's largest economy.