The country’s perennial yearning for reassurance is still dominating discourse — but this time around, it’s likely to be in vain.

Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of the Feb. 23 election

Berlin will try to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Germany's health minister said on Tuesday.

Berlin’s envoy Andreas Michaelis denounced Trump’s planned “strategy of maximal disruption”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Germany and Europe should continue on the path of expanding low-carbon energies during the second presidency of Donald Trump, a climate change sceptic, outgoing German vice chancellor Robert Habeck said on Tuesday.

Last September, the AfD became Germany’s first far-right party in post-World War II history to win a state election outright, in the eastern region of Thuringia. Bjoern Hoecke, the state’s party leader, has been repeatedly accused of historical revisionism and convicted of using a Nazi slogan at election rallies.

He noted it would make sense to station EU soldiers in addition to US forces there. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power",

In the leaked cable, a German envoy said he saw US President-elect Donald Trump as a man driven by "desire for vengeance".

The German news agency dpa is reporting that the German ambassador to Washington wrote in a report back to Berlin that he expects Donald Trump to largely undermine the system of democratic checks and balances during his second term.

A flurry of moves by newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump prompted consternation, concern and discussion in Germany, as leaders in Berlin tried to navigate Trump's return to the White House after four years.

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday that he does not expect the United States to halt military aid to Ukraine after President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20.