If Merz cannot unite the CDU and SPD, the AfD’s strategy of forcing conservatives to co-operate with them could succeed ...

The 69-year-old chancellor hoped to use his first summer television interview as German leader to showcase his coalition’s ...

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has closed in on the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, according to a new ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

The co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has again accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

For eight years, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the Bundestag as a launch pad for ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government has been in power for two months now. If you believe the opposition, they are doing a ...

An impassioned debate involving abortion and a plagiarism allegation underscores the German coalition’s relative fragility.

A serious rift broke out Friday within Germany’s coalition government over the appointment of new judges to the ...

In an era marked by open confrontation between NATO and Russia, Germany finds itself at the epicenter of both the military ...

The number of reprimands issued in the Bundestag reached its highest postwar level during the last parliament. Two-thirds of ...