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

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

Why is the far-right AfD popular in areas that once made up the communist country of the German Democratic Republic? The ...

Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

One lesson from an Alternative für Deutschland rally and this weekend’s election results: The Cold War never ended.

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

The AfD parliamentary faction, which is jubilant after securing a record 21 per cent in Sunday’s federal elections, also ...

Alice Weidel, missed a late-night congratulatory call from American billionaire Elon Musk following her party's success in ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...

After more than three years with Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Germany’s helm, Sunday’s election cemented the country’s lurch to ...

Support for the far-right AfD doubled in Germany's 2025 election. Most of it came from the former East Germany, where deep ...

Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, called casting his first-ever vote on Sunday at 57 an indescribable ...