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Gregor Gysi
Gregor Gysi is a trained attorney and veteran politician of Germany's socialist Left Party.
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Germany's Left party attempts a fresh start
A few months before Germany's national election, the socialists hope a new leadership duo will give them fresh momentum.
Germany 2021: Fighting COVID and replacing Angela Merkel
The pandemic fight and political battles are expected to be the defining features of 2021 in Germany.
Top politicians in Thuringia both lose their immunity
The AfD's Björn Höcke faces defamation charges, while a middle finger gesture plagues the Left party's Bodo Ramelow.
Germany's refugee population falls by over 60,000
The number of refugees living in Germany has fallen for the first time in nine years, said the Interior Ministry.
NRW local election sees likely gain for Greens
The environmentalist party has seen its best result in a municipal election, according to an exit poll.
Germany: Co-leaders of socialist Left Party to quit
After eight years, Katja Kipping and Berndt Riexinger announce they are stepping down as leaders of the socialist party.
German state removes gender parity election rule
One year ago a law was introduced in Thuringia that required gender parity for candidates in parliamentary elections.
German politician receives neo-Nazi death threats
The threatening letters were signed by the "National Socialist Underground 2.0," a neo-Nazi moniker.
Left party politician Ramelow wins key German state vote
Bodo Ramelow has won the vote to become Thuringia's state premier after a right-wing scandal rocked the state.
The Left party are 'partly to blame' for the rise of the AfD
Marco Wanderwitz has said the party needs to take responsibility for the rise of the far-right in Germany.
Thuringia's ex-premier makes offer post-AfD debacle
Left party politician Bodo Ramelow has offered concessions to help solve a political crisis in the eastern German state.
CDU in crisis mode
Angela Merkel's party picks up the pieces from a disastrous week that saw a political taboo broken.
Germany: Left surges, CDU sinks after far-right scandal
Approval of Merkel's CDU took a nosedive in Thuringia after the party was accused of colluding with the far-right AfD.
Desolation and hope in Erfurt after far-right vote
For Left party activists, and Muslims, the implications on the ground are palpable.
Merkel coalition blocks bids to ban 'killer robots'
Germany's opposition Greens and ex-communist Left have failed with motions aimed at banning autonomous weapons.
Are Merkel's CDU and far-right AfD getting closer?
Calls for talks with the AfD in Thuringia have prompted sharp criticism from party brass and Jewish leaders.
Thuringia alarming, but has a silver lining
Kay-Alexander Scholz
After big wins for the far-left and far-right, the Christian Democrats need to step up, says DW's Kay-Alexander Scholz.
Far-right AfD overtakes Merkel's party in Thuringia election
The Left party landed a historic victory in the German state of Thuringia, though the far-right also made massive gains.
German asylum approvals almost always right
Only a tiny minority of asylum-seekers tried to trick German officials, according to data cited in a newspaper report.
Germany fighting for its identity
Ines Pohl
Eighty years after Nazi Germany started World War II, a nationalist, anti-immigrant party has surged in state elections.
Left party urges Germany-wide rent control
Berlin's urban development minister has already proposed capping monthly rates at €7.97 per square meter in the capital.
Could Berlin cap rents at €8 per square meter?
A measure to reduce residential rents is still subject to discussions and could change, German newspapers report.
Left party wants to nationalize German airlines
In an effort to fight climate change, the Left party has proposed nationalizing Germany's airlines.
Left party Berlin HQ evacuated over bomb threat
The left-wing "Die Linke" political party posted images of police securing its HQ, saying this followed a bomb threat.
Berlin to freeze rents for five years
An influential property-owners' association has called for landlords to raise rents before the bill can go into effect.
A border town's Left government and AfD voters
Frankurt (Oder) picked a Left mayor in 2018. In the EU elections, however, the voters went the opposite direction.
Assange faces extradition hearing, Berlin stays quiet
The WikiLeaks founder's possible extradition to the US for computer hacking has alarmed some, but apparently not Berlin.
Maduro meeting lands German politician in hot water
Left party MP Andrej Hunko said he wanted to express his "solidarity" against economic sanctions and the threat of war.
Could Germany see a new left-wing coalition?
Outgoing Left party icon Sahra Wagenknecht was long seen as standing in the way of a broad left-wing German coalition.
German Left's Wagenknecht to stand down
German leftist icon Sahra Wagenknecht says from September she will no longer lead the Left party's Bundestag lawmakers.
Germany: Left Party calls for EU 'reboot'
Germany's socialist party has presented a fundamental EU reform agenda at their convention in the western city of Bonn.
Left Party group posts 'anti-Semitic' cartoon
A group in Germany's Left Party has been criticized for posting a comic insinuating Israel's hand in Venezuela's crisis.
Stammtisch - Red Rosa and the German Left
100 years since Rosa Luxemburg's murder, Stammtisch looks at her importance today and the state of the German Left.
Surge in German weapons to Saudi Arabia & Turkey
German arms exports to Saudi Arabia and Turkey rose last year, despite public criticism.
German lawmakers meet Julian Assange in London
The socialist Left party MPs say the WikiLeaks founder must be protected from extradition to the US.
Germany's no-questions-asked welfare experiment
Fear of sanctions is demotivating the unemployed from getting a job, a new study aims to show.
Bodo Ramelow: "The AfD is stoking people's fears"
Bodo Ramelow, head of the regional government in the state of Thuringia, in the Interview on DW.
Germany's centrists sway toward populism
One in three voters now sympathize with populist policies, according to a new study by Germany's Bertelsmann Foundation.
Leftist and far-right protesters clash in Chemnitz
Some limited violence broke out in the eastern German city as neo-Nazis and leftists clashed in the wake of a murder.
Germany: Fewer attacks on migrants
Lawmakers have welcomed the lower numbers, but warn of an ongoing "intolerable state of everyday racism."
German leftists brace for Aufstehen movement
Tens of thousands have vowed support for the movement, which could present a leftist case for limiting migration.
Left Party calls for 'open borders'
Germany's Left Party socialist congress has backed its leaders in a call for open borders for refugees.
Spain: Podemos leader's luxury home prompts confidence vote
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias survived a confidence vote that was called after he purchased a luxury home near Madrid.
Firebrand heads Saxony-Anhalt inquiry
A far-right German firebrand has ended up chairing a regional parliament's inquiry into purported left-wing extremism.
German opposition slams 36,000 vacant care jobs
One opposition politician has called the government's existing plan to tackle the problem "a joke."
'Little' chance of fair elections in Turkey
Sevim Dagdelen said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was deliberately creating tension ahead of the vote in June.
Cases of far-right extremism on the rise in German military
Germany's Left party is demanding that the Bundeswehr rid itself of far-right adherents.
Attacks on refugees in Germany down by a third
Left wing politicians blame both the AfD and Angela Merkel's party for stirring up hatred.
SPD sinks to record low in polls
Voter support for Germany's SPD has plunged to a record low of 16 percent, according to a new poll.
The Berlin Wall is gone, but is it really?
The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years. Now, for just as long, it has been gone – though not entirely.
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