Germany's leader ruled out working with the far-right Alternative for Germany party but he conceded the result had shaken his ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and far-right opposition leader Alice Weidel are set to face off in the Bundestag on Wednesday, ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz was a drag on his conservative party in its disastrous loss to the far right in a state election.

A member of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has broken rank to call for the chancellor’s resignation.

The center-left party’s strategic pivot is likely to deepen Merz’s myriad challenges as questions mount over his ability to ...

The far-right's historic election victory in a German state election has reopened divisions in Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government, with calls by his Social Democrat coalition ​partners for planned ...

The far-right party’s electoral win will further normalize its anti-immigrant agenda and policy of drawing closer to Moscow.

Deeply shocked' by the far right's regional victory on Sunday, the chancellor now has to contend with his coalition partner, ...

Anhalt, but Germany as a whole," the downtempo chancellor told reporters in Berlin on Monday afternoon as he attempted to pick up the pieces of a disastrous election in the country’s east. "There will ...

A coalition with the Christian Democrats would present a stark contrast to voters and test the AfD’s actual governing chops, ...

European societies are facing a rising tide of young right-wing parties. In Germany the most prominent is the Alternative for Germany (AfD). It was founded in 2013 under the leadership of conservative ...

Of course, the world’s most antisemitic Nazi-saluting trillionaire (don’t call it a Nazi salute!) is a huge supporter, and he ...