German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed Monday to take on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of five state ...

For months now, the anti-immigration far-right Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) has been calling for early elections. The ...

The far-right AfD party finished second in Germany's snap national election in February and polls since then have shown its ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) would emerge as the leading party in the north-eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern if state elections were held now, according to a poll released ...

Advocates of direct cooperation with the AfD are now so strong that the CDU's executive committee met for a two-day retreat ...

Six candidates for Germany’s far-right AfD party have died in recent weeks ahead of local elections in the large western state of North Rhine Westphalia. Police have said there is no suggestion of ...

The hand that the AfD keeps reaching out is, in reality, a hand that wants to destroy us,” says German chancellor after ...

As Germany prepares for five state elections next year, chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right CDU faces a dilemma over how ...

The onus is on Merz and his ministers not just to deliver on policy but to clearly demonstrate that all isn’t lost for the ...

The German right-wing party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) has experienced the sudden deaths of four candidates and two reserve candidates within 13 days leading up to the North Rhine-Westphalia ...

(CNN) — The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party finished first in municipal polls in Germany's most populous state, but the biggest winner in the first electoral test since Merz's government took power was ...