However, both the AfD and the Left oppose military aid to Ukraine ... "The Left would like to ditch the debt brake. However, its agenda - soak the rich, spend more on welfare and less on defence ...

Germany’s Social Democrats are taking steps to revamp their leadership as a role in a new government beckons, even though Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party slumped to its worst election result since ...

Exit polls have now been published in Germany’s election, suggesting frontrunner Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has come out well in front, as the far-right AfD ...

Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

The AfD's success means it is time for other parties, in particular Merz's conservatives, to ditch the so-called "fire wall", she said, referring to a consensus among the mainstream parties to ...

“We were better off with the Deutschmark,” he said, backing the AfD promise to ditch the euro and bring back the currency synonymous with Germany’s post-war prosperity. On ...

Two security guards stand watch outside a small castle hosting a campaign event for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the ex-communist east, the party's heartland.