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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and has been since 2005. Merkel is the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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 ...

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.

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 ...