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

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

At the start of November last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner - the leader of one of ...

Germany’s national election results show Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc winning with 29% of the vote and 211 seats, while the ...

"We have doubled our votes," Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Alice Weidel says as exit poll results are announced in ...

Friedrich Merz poised to become next chancellor after exit polls predict victory for his centre-Right Christian Democratic ...

Yet early voter analysis shows the asylum/public security issue was key in a mass defection of voters from mainstream parties ...

The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned ...

BERLIN: As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual ...

Berlin — Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...