As one European nationalist party saw its grip on power end abruptly in Hungary over the weekend, another was riding a wave ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — The rise of the far right has hit German politics like an earthquake — especially in the former Communist East Germany and among voters under 60. But in the gritty Connewitz ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz was successfully elected chancellor of the country Tuesday after a historic initial defeat on his first ballot, which caused tumult in the Bundestag, or ...

When the Christian Democratic Union won the German parliamentary elections in February, it was far from a reassuring victory. The Alternative for Germany, the nation’s most prominent right-wing ...

Germany’s centrist establishment has long scorned the far left, but it is increasingly reliant on leftists to outmaneuver the far right in crucial votes in Parliament. By Clay Risen Reporting from ...

In the year leading up to Germany’s February elections, the far-right party Alternative for Germany was rising fast in the polls. It would ultimately increase its seats in the Bundestag from 76 to 152 ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday called on centre-left parties to take greater responsibility in countering right-wing extremism, warning against using the label too broadly, thereby ...