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

The controversy surrounding the election of a judge to the Federal Constitutional Court shows how the far-right AfD is being ...

The humiliation of Merz and his shaky CDU-SPD government must have provided grim satisfaction to the AfD’s voters and leaders. Just four days earlier, on May 2, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency ...

While the AfD is ahead of the SPD (17 percent), it is substantially behind the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU), which is polling at 31 percent.

The move threatens to further embolden the AfD while isolating the CDU’s more centrist supporter base. For Loomes, it is a decision that is “fraught with danger.” ...

The CDU, he said, wants to "do everything in this election campaign in particular to make this party as small as possible again." "I can assure voters in Germany of one thing very clearly: We will ...

On February 23, Germany held a pivotal election that saw a record-breaking voter turnout of 83.5%, the highest since 1990. The results underscored si ...

Berlin police said on Sunday that at least 160,000 people attended a rally in the German capital to protest the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leaning on the support of the far ...

In Germany’s recent federal election, the CDU emerged as the strongest party at 28.6%, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) securing a historic second place with 20.8% — doubling their result ...

Because Merz is part of the establishment, and for tactical political advantage, the CDU is part of the official anti-AfD campaign. He has ruled out forming any coalition government with Weidel.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Berlin: 160,000 protest against CDU-AfD collaboration 02/02/2025 February 2, 2025. The rally in the German capital comes in the wake of the conservative CDU/CSU leaning on the support of the far ...