The Latest Breaking News from Bavaria

Germany’s governing three-party coalition under Olaf Scholz has already had a difficult time this year. But things just got significantly worse with recent state elections in Hesse and Bavaria, two of the country’s most prosperous states.

Alternative für Deutschland comes second in Hesse and third in Bavaria as support spreads from east of country

Two German states are holding elections at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular national government

A special unit of police and customs officials have raided several properties of a Russian national in the southern state of Bavaria, officials say

German police say a leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was given medical treatment and then taken to a hospital shortly before he was due to speak at an election rally in Bavaria

Germany is far more resilient to populism than its European neighbours, says John Kampfner, author of In Search of Berlin

Early in the summer of 2023, robots projected on a screen delivered sermons to about 300 congregants at St. Paul’s Church in Bavaria, Germany. Created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna, the experimental church service drew immense interest.

Markus Söder stands by Hubert Aiwanger after he apologies for flyer found in his school satchel in the 1980s

The governor of the German state of Bavaria says he will let his deputy stay in office despite a furor that started with allegations he was responsible for an antisemitic flyer when he was a high school student 35 years ago

Germany has been gripped by an antisemitism scandal centered on Hubert Aiwanger, the deputy premier of the state of Bavaria

The deputy governor of Germany’s Bavaria state has defended himself against mounting allegations that he was responsible for an antisemitic flyer, that he gave the Hitler salute, and that he imitated the Nazi dictator as a high school student