"We are the winners of the evening," said Tino Chrupalla, co-chairman of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) said in virtually every interview he gave on election night. Markus ...

When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was elected in February of last year, he warned the political mainstream that it was ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office a year ago vowing to revive the political centre, but the far-right AfD party ...

An election poster of the German far right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), right, is attached to a lamppost in front of a giant election poster showing a map of Germany, at the headquarters of ...

The Catholic Church in Saxony-Anhalt has launched a campaign ahead of September’s crucial elections in the eastern German ...

The AfD came second in Germany's February elections and has a record number of seats in the new parliament. Germany's main parties refuse to work with the far right, but the AfD wants to tear the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, talks to German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil during the Ministers-President Conference with the heads of the federal states, at the chancellery in Berlin, ...