Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

American tech billionaire Elon Musk made a surprise address at the campaign launch for Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD ...

The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe's most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls ...

Alternative for Germany helped push an immigration restriction proposal over the threshold, breaking the "firewall" surrounding the right-wing party.

An editor at Germany's Jewish newsweekly responds to Elon Musk's endorsement of the Alternative for Germany political party.

As the AfD gains popularity, its critics are seeking to take away voters’ ability to support or reject the party.

The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday a bill sponsored by conservatives and the far right calling for stricter ...

Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant ...

The former German Chancellor has publicly criticised her former party in the wake of far-right AfD's rising popularity.

Germany's two largest Christian churches have jointly denounced opposition leader Friedrich Merz's plans to pass motions on ...

A cross-party group of 124 MPs put a motion on the agenda to bring proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court to ban the party, whose unprecedented alliance with the CDU caused a shock.