The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party is expected to perform strongly in Saxony and Thuringia. The two main rivals for the German chancellorship claim a mandate to govern after a tight ...

Merz, who took over as party leader in 2022, has since taken the CDU farther to the right, in a bid to reclaim votes from far ...

“We are practically no longer concerned at all, or only very little, with what comes from this coalition,” Friedrich Merz ...

The anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland made big gains in Germany’s state elections this Sunday. The grim outcome ...

Germany’s far right has won the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of ...

Germany is particularly sensitive to the strength of its far right. Its modern democratic structures were developed in the ...