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

Alternative for Germany (AfD) may not have won the supermajority it sought in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, but ...

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.

Chancellor Merz's government must recognise the far-right AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt and voter discontent that led to the ...

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

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz batted away suggestions that he might resign, saying he ​would broadly stick with his ...

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 ...

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

Thousands of people demonstrated across Germany after the AfD’s decisive victory in Saxony-Anhalt. Protesters in Berlin ...

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, ...