This article explores predictions from RFE/RL journalists for the year 2025, focusing on global conflicts, authoritarianism, and the impact of US politics on the world stage.

Only a fool or charlatan will pretend to predict the future, so it’s usually best to avoid election forecasting. So instead, ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections for Feb. 23 after the ...

The coming 12 months cant promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the ...

The new elections would allow for Olaf Scholz's party to have a chance to take power or allow a new majority government to ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who lost confidence vote this month, will act as caretaker chancellor at time of rising turmoil.

Germany will elect a new government seven months ahead of schedule after President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections for Feb. 23 in the wake ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved Germany's lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament on Friday and confirmed the expected February date for an early ...

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has dissolved parliament and set the date for the country's snap elections as February 23. He announced on Friday that he had done this at Chancellor Olaf ...