Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives slipped into second place behind Germany's far right in a poll marking his ...

Ukrainian refugees in Germany are receiving "unjustified" social payments and should return to their home country, a ...

AfD increases its vote to 26%, while Chancellor Merz's approval ratings hit a new low of just 29%, down from 43% in June - ...

The western German city of Dortmund is taking the local chapter of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to court over ...

The fate of the chancellor, his coalition government and his traditionally conservative party all depends on how they counter ...

Such a stance would have been far outside the German mainstream, were it true. Abortion is illegal in Germany, but there are no penalties for the procedure through 12 weeks of pregnancy. Ms.

Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto notably omitting a call for repatriation of some ...

Four years later, in 1956, the far-left Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was also banned. Repeated attempts – in 2003, 2016 and 2021 – to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany ...

In 2024, 27 Pride marches in Germany were targeted by far-right groups, most of them in eastern Germany, according to CeMAS, a non-profit extremist monitoring organization, which said members of ...

As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a ...

In Germany and France, mainstream political parties still cooperate to box out far-right parties, preventing them from gaining power despite their growing popularity.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Last weekend, Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto notably omitting a call for ...