Elections in two former communist states — where the AfD is likely to win, but remain short of a majority — are cause for ...

Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more.

Pensions, migration and conscription will continue to dominate domestic politics in Germany this year. Above all, the focus ...

The centre-right CDU party won mayoralties across North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday, including Dortmund's first non-Social Democrat mayor since 1946, while the far-right AfD failed to capture any ...

A top member of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative party has expressed strong reservations about calls to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), ahead of nationwide rallies in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

The Saxony state budget, supported by the Left Party and the Greens, is decimating social infrastructure and culture as ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or BfV, on Friday classified the country’s popular Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as "extremist." ...