Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its best ever result.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Paul Hockenos is a journalist and author based in Berlin. His most recent book is “Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin.” ...

With Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz ... he voted together with the AfD, which was one of the very controversial moments. I sometimes am not sure if the strategy of Merz is really thoughtful ...

Sunday's vote is a pivotal moment for the Alternative for Germany party. It's polling high enough for second place as part of ...

Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party nearly doubled its share of the vote from the last election to secure a strong ...

But a historic rise in support for Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has left ... "We now miss the days when Mrs. Merkel was in charge of the government," he said, ...

or AfD, was founded in 2013 and initially focused on opposition to bailouts for struggling countries in the eurozone debt crisis—measures that then Chancellor Angela Merkel described as ...

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

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