The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

By Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, ...

Critics of the German far-right party say that the AfD is still far from having any real influence, as none of the other ...

For eight years, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the Bundestag as a launch pad for ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

BERLIN – Germany’s opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

A serious rift broke out Friday within Germany’s coalition government over the appointment of new judges to the ...

The AfD’s second-place position has sparked alarm across Germany. Outside the party’s election venue in a northern Berlin suburb, around 200 protesters gathered, setting off a deafening 1960s ...

The SPD’s committee chairs are young and disproportionately female, with the predictable political consequences. Naturally, German media have been raving about this SPD gynocracy, after having blasted ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

The AfD became the first party considered by many to be far-right to come out victorious in a state election in Germany since the World War II, when it won Brandenburg in September.

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the party's headquarters after the elections on Sunday in Berlin.