The AfD's popularity in Germany is growing - 25% support. How did the country of exemplary denazification turn out to be unprepared for a new rightward shift?

While Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is already plagued by criticism and sinking poll numbers at home, his EU ...

Support for Christian Democrats and Social Democrats has dropped to 40%, while the far-right AfD party has reached a record ...

True to its Gaullist legacy, France has always been wary of becoming too dependent on the Western world’s great superpower.

Modern politics can be brutally unforgiving for incumbent politicians. Yet, for incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz, ...

The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) enjoy ...

With liberalism, freedom and democracy under threat globally, it's a time for 'giants' – but this is a 'coalition of the ...

“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far right if the coalition fails, Germany in 2025 has a long list of dangers to ...

The ‘firewall’ against the far-right, neo-Nazi party AfD in Germany, which has so far prevented the party’s involvement in ...

The issue of supplying Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine is causing disputes within the coalition of parties working to form ...

Daniela Schwarzer asks whether the incoming coalition government can meet the four key challenges facing the country.

Germany's conservative CDU party and its social-democrat counterpart agreed on a coalition deal, but how does it look at home ...