With the Alternative for Germany party close to power in a German state, federal officials are planning to limit the group’s ...

Anhalt’s access to sensitive intelligence data after the AfD’s victory in the state election, fearing that classified information could reach Moscow, according to 17 German and foreign officials who ...

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In Weissenfels, Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right AfD scored a historic result in the regional election held on September 6. Conservative Mayor Martin Papke (CDU) believes that '80% of the far right's ...

For the past six years, Germany has either been in recession or stagnated. By comparison, real GDP in the United States has increased by more than 15 percent since 2020, while the economies of the ...

Boris Rhein from Hesse has also occasionally been floated as an alternative to Merz, but has a relatively low public profile. In each case, contenders might want to keep their powder dry for longer, ...

The leftist Die Linke party won the most votes in Berlin, even as the far right AfD won a state election in the north.

Vorpommern, the Left Party’s historic breakthrough in Berlin and another CDU collapse have deepened Chancellor ...

The chancellor intends to stay on despite 'disaster' for his conservative CDU party, which was squeezed at the polls by both ...

Ex-spy Joseph Wippl says the far-right AfD party's success may open an intelligence sharing 'can of worms', but thinks Putin's hybrid war will backfire ...

Since the 2024 European elections, Germany's right and far right have repeatedly voted together to toughen immigration laws, ...

The bruising defeat of Chancellor Friedrich Merz (pictured) reflects the stalling of what once was Germany's mighty economic ...