A far-right government in Saxony-Anhalt cannot do much to affect German policy,” says Timo Lochocki, a professor of public ...

Anhalt, a state in eastern Germany. With an area of 20,555 km²—slightly larger than North Gyeongsang Province—it is an ...

Wagenknecht, 57, quit the far-left Die Linke in 2023 to form her own party. She stepped down as BSW leader last year but ...

The AfD’s success in Saxony-Anhalt confronts German Catholics with difficult questions about political judgement, episcopal authority and the coherence of Catholic social teaching ...

Embracing positions extolled by the Kremlin, the Alternative for Germany party may govern for the first time in a German ...

Germany’s political establishment has spent years treating Alternative für Deutschland as a problem that could be contained ...

Saxony-Anhalt may well become the first German state to be led by a radical right government since the second world war. But the context is important. Saxony-Anhalt is a small state made up of 1.7 ...

In Grossbeeren near Berlin—considered a CDU stronghold in the eastern German state of Brandenburg—the CDU has written a scathing letter to Chancellor and party leader Friedrich Merz. Following the ...

The AfD’s election victory in Saxony-Anhalt has sparked a new debate concerning possible proceedings for having the party ...

Video. 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 ...

He pledges to “reclaim” the institution’s power from elsewhere in Brussels, fight loneliness among staff and build majorities ...