Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

Germany's far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with ...

The anti-immigration, populist AfD reached a historic milestone Wednesday when the poll found it was the most popular party ...

Friedrich Merz and his conservative Christian Democratic Union must now persuade Germans that he can fix the economy and get ...

Even as Friedrich Merz of the CDU/CSU bloc has struck a deal to form a government in Germany, the far-right AfD has emerged ...

The announcement of a governing coalition formalizes what appeared destined to happen after February's election.

Or will the next elections – which will be held in 2029 at the latest – see the AfD emerge as the most powerful political party in Germany? Might Germany’s next chancellor even come from the ...

Merz pitched himself as the man to slay the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) – who'd scored 12.6% in the previous year's national election – and win back disaffected conservative voters ...

Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats are lagging behind the Conservatives and the Alternative for Germany, according to the survey ...

Support for Germany's conservatives fell by two percentage points since the last poll, just after the February 23 election, while the AfD rose by one percentage point. Having lost more than a ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in February's election with a record 20 percent of the vote. Support ...