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In Germany, opposition parties advocate to lower voting age for nationwide elections from 18 to 166 June 2023
German government wants to let 16-year-olds vote —
Germany's center-left government wants to lower the voting age for nationwide elections from 18 to 16. Many…
Germany plans to amend basic law to enable €100 billion military fund31 May 2022
Germany's coalition government and the conservative CDU/CSU alliance on Sunday agreed on the details of a €100 billion ($107 billion) boost to the country's mil…
Op-Ed: COVID challenges the system of German federalism15 December 2021
For almost two years, Germany's national and state governments have been struggling to combat the COVID pandemic.
Keen to keep workplaces and schools open, t…
German constitutional court rules legislature must enhance climate change measures30 April 2021
Germany's Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the country's 2019 climate protection act is in part unconstitutional.
"The regulations irreversibly postpo…
"They're not little adults": the struggle for proper and standalone children's rights in the German Basic Law26 February 2021
A pending children’s rights amendment in Germany proposes to change the Basic Law, with the intention of implementing Germany’s obligations under the United Nat…