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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some segments of the party, known as the AfD, have been classified as extremist by German intelligence. How could that happen in Germany, a country whose history has taught a bitter lesson about ...

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 ...

In a historic shift in Germany’s political landscape, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the second largest party in the Bundestag, winning 20.8 percent of the vote ...

“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.