Germany, the pre-eminent European country for the past century, third in world GDP, the biggest economy in Europe and pivotal ...

Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...

by Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel criticised her successor for passing a motion in parliament with the support of the AfD. The former Chancellor accused ...

Was the report on the causes of the pandemic kept under lock and key? Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denies it, and ...

But whatever political plans Merz had for himself and for Germany at the time, he had to change them with the appearance of Angela ... with the AfD will force him to walk in Merkel’s steps ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.