A photo provided by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice shows Sigrid Emmenegger, administrative judge and the SPD’s new candidate for election as a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's parliament on Thursday voted to appoint three new judges to the Constitutional Court, avoiding a repeat of the summer's coalition crisis. The appointments confirmed two ...

German lawmakers on Thursday elected three new judges to the country's top court, ending a bitter dispute that had weighed heavily on Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government. Members of the Bundestag, ...

On July 1, 2025, the ECtHR rejected the application in Engels and Others v. Germany. The applicants alleged violations of Articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR"), claiming ...