German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed Monday to take on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of five state ...

Assassinations, coups, and street brawls may be symptoms of democratic decay—or an intentional strategy wielded by ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

As Germany braces for economic hardship and the mounting danger of confrontation with Russia, its leaders appear preoccupied ...

Researchers in Berlin found that centrist parties are allowing far-right parties to dominate political debate by repeating their rhetoric. Chancellor Merz's recent remarks on Germany's "cityscape" ...

Germany's biggest opposition political party, the nationalist and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, has been designated "extremist" by the country's domestic intelligence agency. That ...

The onus is on Merz and his ministers not just to deliver on policy but to clearly demonstrate that all isn’t lost for the ...

FOR nearly two years, Germany’s Palestine solidarity movement has been subjected to intense repression. Above all, the ...

In March, when Donald Trump took fresh steps to align his administration with Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia, officials in Germany were not pleased. When the American president announced damaging ...

Germany’s February election produced an unprecedented result. The center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by Friedrich Merz, won the most votes and the largest number of seats in the Bundestag.

The German Police Union's call comes amid a debate over urban migration. Meanwhile, Munich is considering hosting the ...

There was a time when politics was simply a struggle for power, especially in the Philippines. Political parties in this country had no ideology at all.