Germany — officially known as the Federal Republic of Germany — has 16 federal states. Its federal system allows the individual German states to maintain authority over areas like education ...

Approval from Germany's 16 federal states is the final hurdle in passing a historic change to the country's debt borrowing ...

Germany's second chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat, might throw a wrench in Friedrich Merz's debt brake reform. The chamber representing Germany's 16 states must approve all laws that affect states ...

In the new Germany there is no place for federal States or for the borders they had. . . . Such institutions might even have a pernicious effect nowadays as a stimulus to Monarchist Party aims ...

Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they ...