Voters are heading to the polls in Germany, with the country’s far-right AfD party expected to make large gains.Polling ...

Germany holds elections on Sunday after its three-party "traffic light" coalition collapsed last year and could soon have a ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

Three trends, each a source of grave concern for Germans, form the backdrop to Sunday’s Bundestag elections: an uncertain, ...

There is a consensus at national and EU level that if the continent is to meet growing defence spending needs, due to the ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...

The issue of migration has attracted so much attention that it has distracted from the fundamental geopolitical and economic ...

Germany is holding a national election on Sunday 23 February. Germany's mainstream political parties have lost support while ...

Germany has, however, maintained a relatively open-door policy for migrants. Former Chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU/CSU party declared in 2015: “Wir schaffen das!” or “We can do it!” and welcomed ...

Long seen as having a stronghold in eastern Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is poised to make major ...