As the AfD divisions burst into the open, Merkel acknowledged her party had failed to do enough to prevent the drift to the far right. She vowed “to focus on those who went to the AfD.” ...

After the vote, Merkel accused Merz of breaking a pledge he made following the collapse of Germany's coalition government not ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Monday ruled out any form of cooperation with Alternative for Germany (AfD), saying the far-right party's anti-immigrant rhetoric was contributing to an ...

The victory by Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union party was no surprise Sunday. But her open-door policy that allowed refugees into the country since 2015 spiked support for the AfD ...

Merkel's party and the center-left Social Democrats are both polling ahead of the AFD, on 22 percent and 28 percent respectively. But in March the AFD dramatically outperformed pollsters' predictions.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Angela Merkel's chosen successor, resigned as radical parties are gaining traction. Here's what that means for Germany.

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Deutschland, once considered a fringe party, has emerged as the largest opposition bloc in parliament, and its popularity is rising as longtime ...

The Political Price of Merkel's Migrant Policy Germany is handing the influx better than it was. But the chancellor's popularity is even lower now than at the height of the crisis.

Hangzhou, China, is some 9,000km away from Angela Merkel's home town Templin, north of Berlin. But Merkel must have felt the crushing defeat in her Northeast German home state of Mecklenburg ...

Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc has slumped to a record low after a bruising internal row over migration policy, with support for the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The AfD won 13% of the vote and came a stunning third place behind the main center-right and center-left parties. It polled particularly strongly in the former East Germany, which includes Berlin ...