It’s a huge kindergarten here,’ says the party’s Alice Weidel, to whom the chancellor won’t speak.

The AfD had managed to shape political discourse during the election campaign in Germany with its anti-immigration rhetoric, calling for Germany's borders to be closed to refugees and asylum seekers.

The SPD’s committee chairs are young and disproportionately female, with the predictable political consequences. Naturally, German media have been raving about this SPD gynocracy, after having blasted ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

BERLIN – Germany’s opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

The AfD became the first party considered by many to be far-right to come out victorious in a state election in Germany since ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative for Germany movement.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won about 32 to 33% of the vote in the east German state of Thuringia, flattening the center right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group, which brought in ...

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

The AfD became the first party considered by many to be far-right to come out victorious in a state election in Germany since the World War II, when it won Brandenburg in September.