Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany’s national election, while a ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...

Projections show German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in Sunday's national ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after ...

Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the ...

At the start of November last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner - the leader of one of ...