The election successes of far-right parties in Germany and elsewhere is making it harder to solve social problems. Experts ...

Donald Trump is dividing the US, the US government is dividing the democratic West, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is dividing German ... pay no heed to divisions and gaps.

Before the vote, the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and the Catholic German Bishops' Conference (DBK) wrote a joint letter to all parliamentarians urgently warning against such collaboration.

With strong results for the far-right AfD and the far-left The Left party in the east, neither of which are likely government parties, and Merz now preparing to forge a coalition between his ...