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

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc again slipped behind the far-right Alternative for Germany party in a voter poll, ...

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

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

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has adopted a code of conduct for its members, without changing its positions on immigration and other issues.

The plot was allegedly an offshoot of the so-called Reichsbürger – or Citizens of the Reich – movement of extremists and gun ...

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

A former aide to far-right AfD politician Maximilian Krah has gone on trial accused of spying for China since 2002. Prosecutors say the case reveals espionage targeting German political, economic, and ...

Amid fresh tensions, Germany’s new special envoy for German-Polish affairs banks on messaging, memorials and money to mend ...

Two suspected spies for China, including a former aide to far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker Maximilian Krah, ...

Fed up with the dominant political parties, many German voters are backing new leaders who have been labelled extreme.