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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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DW Interview: Sevim Dagdelen
German politician Sevim Dagdelen has received threats and lived under police protection for years.
DW Interview: Sevim Dagdelen
German politician Sevim Dagdelen has received threats and lived under police protection for years.
Left party alarmed over neo-Nazi properties
The Interior Ministry reports that real estate across Germany is being used by neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists.
Is the German left coming apart at the seams?
The Social Democrats are fighting about their future, while others are calling for a new party to unite the left.
A new dawn for Germany's left?
The co-founder of the Left party has called for a new alliance to catapult the left wing into power.
Turkey made 81 extradition requests since coup
Turkey has expressed frustration at Germany's lack of movement on extradition requests after a failed coup.
Lower Saxony election: Anything can happen
The election in Lower Saxony could indicate how voters see the possible future federal government in Berlin.
How the AfD crept into Berlin's left-wing strongholds
A bastion of the Left since the collapse of the GDR, Berlin's eastern outskirts saw staggering gains for the far-right.
What's left for the Left?
After bleeding voters to the AfD, could the Left party now take an anti-refugee line?
The role of Germany's parliamentary opposition
The SPD has announced it will go into opposition. What role does the main opposition party play in the Bundestag?
As it happened: Merkel's CDU largest party
Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a hit but is set for a fourth term. Who will she pick as coalition allies?
Germany's major parties on asylum and migration
What asylum and immigration policies do Germany's six biggest political parties advocate? DW explains.
Will Germany's non-voters decide the election outcome?
Who are Germany's non-voters? In 2009 they were the largest group in the electorate.
Threatening letters sent to top German politicians
Letters with white powder and razor blades have been sent to Merkel and other candidates days before Germany's election.
How Germany's politicians fight for votes
The election campaign is nearing the finish line, and politicians are doing everything and anything to grab votes.
Between Berlin and a bad place
Germany's Left party dominates Berlin-Lichtenberg. But how much does the party rely on its former East German past?
German election: Poll puts populist AfD in third place
Although the newest poll puts the AfD ahead in the race for third place, the Greens and the FDP aren't giving up hope.
Potential Merkel partners, opposition jostle for position
The five small parties likely to be part of the next German parliament convened for a somewhat chaotic TV debate.
Left party defends use of swastika
Unsuspecting onlookers called police when they saw a film crew spraying a swastika and a racist message in Berlin.
Germany's smaller parties sling it out for third place
Germany's FDP, the Greens, the AfD and the Left party sought to sway voters in a TV debate of the minnows.
The Left party's leading figure
With her rhetoric swinging between pacifism and populism, where does the Left party's top candidate really stand?
Growing violence in anti-Muslim attacks
The number of people being injured in Islamophobic attacks in Germany has increased this year.
Am I populist?
Felix Steiner
So-called experts can't agree on how dangerous populists might be. DW's Felix Steiner doesn't even know if he is one.
DW interview with Sahra Wagenknecht (2017)
In this first interview we will be talking to Sahra Wagenknecht, deputy chairperson and candidate for the Left Party. Posing the questions: Editor Ines Pohl, and reporter Jaafar Abdul-Karim.
Wagenknecht 'wants no part in shaping predatory capitalism'
Sahra Wagenknecht, the Left Party's top candidate says she would be willing to join a coalition government.
Now Maas and SPD back LGBTQ+ equality, too
The Greens, Left and Free Democrats are all on board with moves toward marriage equality.
Berlin to ban sexist billboards
Advertisers say the issue is irrelevant, but local politicians say sexist advertising influences children.
Cheers for Left Party opposition
Left Party national candidate Sahra Wagenknecht took a few shots at the SPD and Greens at the party's convention
Rise in wanted 'neo-Nazis' at large in Germany
Hundreds of right-wing extremists with warrants out for their arrest are still free, according to the German government.
NRW votes: What to look for in key election
The last state election before the national vote is considered an indicator of how Germans could choose in September.
Germans complain about taxes as election looms
There are calls for tax reform from socialists and taxpayers' groups, but the German government won't budge - yet.
Left party presents ambitious election platform
Germany's left-wing party has vowed to pursue a higher minimum wage, raise corporate taxes and protect refugees.
Berlin finds other options for Turkey base
Critics have accused the government of failing to take concrete steps towards relocating the base.
Merkel gets early election test with Saarland state poll
All eyes have turned to Germany's smallest state as local elections begin.
Bundeswehr joins police for anti-terror drills
Despite constitutional concerns, Germany has launched anti-terror exercises with both the police and the Bundeswehr.
Protesters drown out 'Merkel must go' rally
Antifascist groups had organized rallies against a far-right protest in the German capital.
Dutch Green-Left Party tackles Wilders, one door at a time
Two weeks ahead of the elections, a majority of Dutch voters still haven't made up their minds.
Germany's SPD out to cap CEO salaries
The SPD, currently in government with Merkel, is busy making social justice a key plank of its election campaign.
Greens falling on Schulz effect
Martin Schulz has turned the SPD’s fortunes around. He’s done the same for the Greens too, just not for the better.
Wagenknecht calls for security union with Russia
The parliamentary leader of Germany's largest opposition party has urged the dissolution of NATO.
Wagenknecht says Merkel to blame for Berlin terror
The Left party's parliamentary chairwoman causes a stir once again - particularly in her own camp.
New Berlin state secretary haunted by Stasi past
Some think Andrej Holm's Stasi past should rule him out. Others think he can help stop Berlin's housing crisis.
Gysi elected president of European Left
The charismatic and moderate Gregor Gysi now heads the European association of socialist and communist parties.
Berlin's new left-wing government set to change city
Berlin's new government of the SPD, the Left and the Greens could be a blueprint for next year's general election.
German Left party unveils candidates
The biggest opposition party in the Bundestag has presented its two leading candidates for the 2017 election.
Germany 'to repatriate some 12,000 Afghans'
Some 12,500 Afghans whose asylum applications have been rejected will be deported from Germany, a report says.
The search for Germany's next president
The Social Democrats want Foreign Minister Steinmeier, but there is resistance from both conservatives and the left.
A 'left front' to bring down Merkel in 2017?
The SPD, Greens and Left met in Berlin to hammer out a vision of a Germany without Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm.
Claims for Germany to pay for Nambia genocide
Indigenous Namibians are demanding the German government pay reparations for crimes committed during the colonial era.
German MP's immunity threatened for smuggling refugee
Federal authorities have accused the parliamentarian of trafficking a young African refugee.
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