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

Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled ...

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...

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 far ...

Elon Musk endorsed AfD, an anti-immigration party that just won the most support of any far-right party since World War II.

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

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), said on Monday it might legally challenge the results of ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...