Germany's Social Democratic Party says first legal steps should be taken to ban the far-right AfD party as unconstitutional.

The humiliation of Merz and his shaky CDU-SPD government must have provided grim satisfaction to the AfD’s voters and leaders. Just four days earlier, on May 2, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative for Germany movement.

AfD Co-Chairwoman Alice Weidel celebrated the development in a post on X. “For the first time in the AfD’s short history, we are the strongest party in Germany.

Support for Merz's conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which won the February 23 election, fell by five percentage points to 24% while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained three points to land on 25% ...

Deutschland ticket could be scrapped this year, businesses and schools receive a financial boost, and more news from Germany ...

Friedrich Merz set to become Germany's Chancellor following coalition agreement between CDU and SPD. The deal outlines economic priorities while keeping the far-right AfD out of government.

Berlin considers strengthening investment screening powers to stop any future investors reactivating gas pipelines ...

In a recent interview with NBC News, Vice President JD Vance said governments shouldn't try to "delegitimize another competing political party." ...

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.