In the smallest town in Germany, just one out of 228 eligible voters cast their ballot for Alternative for Germany even as ...

The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion.

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

“That feeds into this whole far-right populist narrative that the mainstream parties are abandoning those areas,” Lueders ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...

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Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President Trump's inner circle.

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic ...

Merz’s priority will be to form a government with the third-placed Social Democrats (SPD), led by Germany’s current ...

President Donald Trump's successful runs that prioritized halting illegal immigration have had an effect on international ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD ...

Germany’s economy had stalled. In 2024, German GDP was 0.2 percent lower than in the previous year, and forecasts for 2025 ...