She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has topped a national poll for the first time, prompting the popular Bild ...

Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are characterized by five things: Music, costumes, flowers, candy, and ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the conversation between Elon Musk and Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel began with a straight-up untruth: Alice Weidel, the multibillionaire owner of the ...

DER SPIEGEL's coverage of the far-right AfD is commendable, writes media critic Bernhard Poerksen. But there are several ...

The rightist AfD is now polling as the country’s most popular party.

Germany's far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won the German election — yet his personal popularity is low and getting ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won Germany's election, yet his personal popularity is low — and getting lower. Most Germans don't trust him, not least because of his approach to the ...

Frustration with established parties across Europe has created openings the right has been quick to fill. Can a divided left ...

Reacting to the party's best result ever, AfD co-chair Alice Weidel said: "There's no way around the AfD anymore." Writing on X, Weidel said citizens "don't want another left-wing government in which ...