Germany needs foreigners to survive, but xenophobic politics and long waits for citizenship mean many won’t have a say in its future. With so many disenfranchised, this snap election has been especially galling, writes Imogen Goodman.

After US Vice President JD Vance took aim at Germany’s ‘hate speech police’, we take a look at the law. Here’s the extent to which freedom of speech is protected versus what is strictly not allowed.

More than 50 million people in Germany are eligible to vote in the February 23rd election. But millions in the country who pay taxes and social security do not have the right to cast a ballot. Why is that – and is there appetite for change?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday it was still too early to discuss sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, an opinion echoed by his main rival in this weekend’s elections, Friedrich Merz.

The mood is upbeat at a pre-election meeting of Germany’s young conservatives where a speaker’s harsh attack on the Greens’ climate policies sparks applause from the Generation Z activists.

What will happen on the day, who can vote and what happens next? We round up all the key points to get you prepared for the snap election in Germany.

Hospital manager Kathrin Leffler says she worries Germany’s tense pre-election debate on immigration will make it harder to recruit enough skilled workers from abroad to fill a growing labour shortage.

Public transport strikes across parts of Germany, spring-like temperatures expected after freeze, pre-election CSD march cancelled in Düsseldorf due to hate threat and more news from Germany this Friday.

Germany’s online hate speech watchdog rejected Wednesday a suggestion by JD Vance that its efforts to police crimes on the internet were “Orwellian”, the latest broadside from the US vice president.

There’s plenty to see and do around Nuremberg if you know where to look. Here are six destinations within easy reach by train so you can also make the most out of your Deutschlandticket.