Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

Lawmakers from the incoming chancellor’s CDU party signal an end to the “firewall” that saw mainstream politicians refuse to ...

The far-right AfD leads in a German poll for the first time ever. Can the incoming chancellor reverse the trend?

a rise fueled by former Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s 2015 decision to welcome more than a million migrants and economic troubles. Founded in 2013, AfD won 4.7% in its first Bundestag election ...

For the first time, Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) is leading in a German poll. A quarter of all voters are backing it.

By the time Germany's next elections roll around, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party hopes to be the country's ...

The right-wing party has garnered 24% of support, on par with the CDU/CSU alliance, according to a survey by the INSA ...

In the two months since the election, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has lost four points while the AfD has been rising in opinion polls: Both now stand at 24%. Compared with former Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

The AfD came second in the election ... But Mr Merz cuts a very different figure from Angela Merkel, the centrist conservative who ran Germany for 16 years before Mr Scholz.

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...