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 ...

Since the post-World War II constitution doesn't allow the Bundestag to dissolve itself, it was up to Steinmeier to decide ...

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 ...

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 ...