Hendrik Wüst, the 50-year-old premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, is frequently cited — ...

The vote marks a major breakthrough for the party and a fresh challenge to Germany's mainstream political establishment.

The far-right Alternative for Germany has taunted Chancellor Friedrich Merz in parliament after it thrashed his party in a ...

A new German opinion poll augurs yet more bad news for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's beleaguered conservatives, showing their approval slip further, ahead of elections in ten days' time in the ...

COLUMN. The far-right Alternative for Germany's (AfD) historic victory in a German state and Marine Le Pen's status as the ...

Jens Spahn, the former parliamentary leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), has apologized for his "cowardly" ...

Upon learning of the landslide electoral triumph of a fascist political party in a province that was once part of socialist ...

What many in Germany's CDU feared following Sunday's election debacle in the state of Saxony-Anhalt now appears to be coming ...

CDU politician and German MP Günter Krings calls the Saxony-Anhalt election results “devastating”, saying the situation is “even worse than expected” after the far-right AfD won 43.8% of the vote. Vie ...

Of all Germany’s political parties, only the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has connected with those deeply held values. That ...

Michael reacts to exit polls from the Saxony-Anhalt state election in Germany showing the AfD winning by a landslide, with ...

The AfD may not end up controlling Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state despite a landslide election victory, but the far-right ...