The AfD parliamentary faction, which is jubilant after securing a record 21 per cent in Sunday’s federal elections, also ...

After Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a plurality of seats in federal elections Sunday, party ...

The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s election warns ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor, but he has a long road ahead of him to form government and hold ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...

Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...

We sought to seed the accounts with an equal interest in Germany’s four major parties – the Christian Democrats (CDU), ...

Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.

One of the main advocates of this policy within the party is Peter Boehringer, AfD’s federal vice chairman and a well-known ...

One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.