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Alexandra Oancea, 8 January 2026
A Year in Constitution-Building: What 2025 Revealed, What 2026 May BringMarkus Böckenförde, 29 July 2024
“Resilience lite”: Strengthening the constitutional protection of the German Federal Constitutional Court 
German lawmakers propose enshrining climate protection in basic law17 August 2026
As much of Europe swelters under a heatwave, a group of German ministers wants to enshrine climate protection in the constitution, a plan that sparked pushback …
In Germany, fiscal reform package loosening constitutional restrictions passes lower house of parliament19 March 2025
Germany's Bundestag on Tuesday approved a landmark fiscal reform package, clearing the way for €500 billion ($548 billion) in defense and infrastructure investm…
German legislators ask constitutional court to ban political party14 November 2024
A group of 113 German lawmakers from multiple political factions has submitted an application to initiate proceedings to ban the far-right Alternative for Germa…
Top German court finds part of electoral reform bill incompatible with constitution30 July 2024
There has long been cross-party agreement that the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, is far too big. With the last general election in 2021, it had ball…
In Germany, legislators draft basic law amendments to protect constitutional court29 March 2024
Germany's ruling coalition and main conservative opposition are making good progress on a draft law to protect its highest court, representatives of both sides …