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The Bundestag elects Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, as the 10th Chancellor of Germany in the second round of voting, with 325 votes out of the 316 votes necessary.
2025-05-6

Lawmakers in Germany draft a plan to legalize the recreational use of small amounts of cannabis, pending formal approval by the Bundestag in 2024.
2022-10-26

Frauke Petry resigns as leader of the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a day after the party won seats in the Bundestag for the first time, saying the party has become too "anarchical" and "could not offer a credible platform".
2017-09-25

Eleven Turkish-German members of Germany's Parliament, the Bundestag, who voted in support of declaring the Ottoman Turks slaughter of Armenians in 1915 a genocide, are under police protection. The legislators have faced heavy criticism from Turkish officials, as well as from Turkish Germans.
2016-06-13

In an act of solidarity with France following the Paris massacre, Germany's parliament (the Bundestag) approves measures to move past the military's primary defensive role, to send six of its 29 operational, yet aged, Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, and as many as 1,200 soldiers to support the coalition missions against Islamic State militants in Syria. The airplanes will be limited to support activities; they will not fly combat missions.
2015-12-4

A suicide bomber in a burqa kills 14 people in Chad's capital of N'Djamena.
2015-07-11

The German Bundestag votes overwhelmingly in support for a Greek bailout.
2012-02-27

The German Bundestag votes to approve the European Financial Stability Facility.
2011-09-29

The French law banning the burqa and niqab comes into effect.
2011-04-11

France's lower house of parliament approves a bill that bans wearing burqa and niqāb in public.
2010-07-13