Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), will be the next chancellor - but will exclude second place AfD ...

The AfD came second in Germany's February elections and has a record number of seats in the new parliament. Germany's main parties refuse to work with the far right, but the AfD wants to tear the ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...

President Donald Trump's administration has emerged as a staunch defender of Alternative for Germany, a political party with Nazi echoes that has risen in popularity — and that German intelligence ...

An extreme right-wing German party endorsed by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance surged in the country's Sunday election, winning the broadest support of any far-right party in Germany since World ...

Doctored images and videos of unrelated protests have circulated online after a deadly car attack in Leipzig, falsely ...

A German court says that the country’s domestic intelligence agency can’t label the Alternative for Germany party a proven right-wing extremist group while it considers a complaint by the party ...