Germany's anti-euro AfD party has hit a rich vein of electoral form building on its success in Saxony two weeks ago (where it scored 9....

It's good to hear a Dutch speaking liberal party leader forcefully expressing the case for EU reform. Sadly, as we noted earlier , it ...

AfD chief Bernd Lucke on the campaign trail It's barely been half a year since the German anti-euro party Alternative für Deutschla...

Mixed Reaction in the Med Spanish daily El Mundo runs with the headline “Merkel, Merkel über alles”, while an article in the paper ar...

The first exit polls are in and it looks to be a very close run election. However, not at the top but at the bottom. ARD: CDU/CSU 42%, SPD...

Despite presenting a ubiquitous front on our blog, our team does often have varying views on the issues we cover. As on twitter, there has b...

Three days ahead of the German election, Germany's anti-euro party, Alternative für Deutschland is polling at 5%, according to the lates...

Peer Steinbrück, the SPD’s Chancellor Candidate graces the front cover of today’s S üddeutsche Magazine unapologetically flicking the bird....

Today we released an in-depth briefing on the German elections, and their implications on the eurozone. The top line: don’t expect any fund...

Don’t think the German elections are a done deal – and, in particular, don’t rule out Germany’s anti-euro party, Alternative für Deutschla...

The Bundesbank , The Deutscher Aktieninstitute (DAI) , and even EU civil servants from the 11 participating countries have all warned again...

We thought we’d revive an old Open Europe tradition today – Friday afternoons = German polling time. And we certainly have some interesti...

Writing on his Telegraph blog , Open Europe Director Mats Persson argues that anyone who prays for Germany to U-turn on its eurozone policy ...

On Thursday, the German Bundestag is expected to vote on the Cypriot bailout. The package is likely to be approved with a clear majority - t...

Germany's new anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland party is still in its infancy but it has already generated huge interest at home and...

Although Jens Weidmann may have been alone on the ECB executive board in opposing yesterday’s ECB decision to buy government bonds, he loo...

Over the last few weeks, a range of German policymakers have fired broadsides against further German involvement in the eurozone crisis, and...

As we've noted before , the Germans take privacy and civil liberties seriously, and have refused to implement the EU's Data Retent...

Yesterday's elections in the German region of Saarland saw a somewhat unexpected surge for Angela Merkel's CDU party, which won 35....

As we reported in yesterday's press summary , given that the recently signed 'fiscal treaty' will impact on the budgetary autono...