The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz has ruled out any such alliance but caused uproar last month by bringing a motion to parliament ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...

As Dr Weidel took the stage in Halle, the crowd started a chant that was a not-too-subtle play on a Nazi slogan, “Everything ...

In a relationship with a woman of foreign origin, the AfD leader nonetheless assumes an anti-immigration rhetoric and ...

In Germany's crucial election, Friedrich Merz’s centre-right CDU leads, with far-right AfD set for its best postwar result.

BERLIN — Conservative leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz has cast his vote in the German election. Merz is the leader of ...

But soon after his speech at the Munich Security Conference, in which he stunned the room by comparing democracy in today’s Europe to Soviet-era totalitarianism, Mr. Vance met with Alice Weidel ...

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the ...

Exit polls in Germany's elections predict a win for the conservatives while the far-right Alternative for Germany is set to ...