Kai Wegner

After polls closed in a German state election this month, dozens of local pro-migrant activists gathered anxiously for dinner to see how big a win the anti-immigrant far right would secure

If it finds a way to power it will be the first far-right party to govern a German state since the Nazi era

It was a story that almost went unnoticed amid all the clamor surrounding the closely watched state election in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6

Germany is on high alert after a deadly vehicle-ramming and knife attack near Berlin's Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride parade left one woman dead and 29 people injured

Van slams into people gathered for Berlin’s LGBTQ2S+ event, killing 1 and injuring at least 16

Berlin’s embattled mayor has abandoned his campaign to stand for reelection after failing to recover from a row over his decision to play tennis while large parts of the German capital were hit by a power blackout in January

Wegner’s CDU political party received support from rival SPD members and the far-right AfD for the Berlin Olympic and Paralympic plans that he first presented in May last year in the same stadium where Jesse Owens defied Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Games

The wider significance will be greater, though, when she oversees Union Berlin in their crunch Bundesliga match against Wolfsburg this weekend

The Minister of State for Culture intends to replace festival head Tricia Tuttle, according to reports by "Bild." A Palestinian award-winner's accusation that Germany supports genocide had sparked political backlash

Under-pressure Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner on Thursday asked the city’s House of Representatives to allow the use of de-icing salt on sidewalks

Residents in some parts of Toronto have taken to clearing stretches of impassable sidewalks themselves days after a major snowstorm

The incident left 45,000 households without power in freezing temperatures

Wegner confirmed the report in an interview with Welt TV (which, like POLITICO, belongs to the Axel Springer group)

The activist group Vulkangruppe — or Volcano Group — claimed responsibility for the attack, citing the role that fossil fuels and AI play in accelerating the climate crisis

The far-left Volcano activist group claimed responsibility for the attack which also shut down mobile phone connections, cut heating during freezing weather, stopped trains and forced hospitals to switch to back-up generators

Officials have opened community centres for residents to take shelter during the freezing temperatures and converted sports halls into emergency accommodation