When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded ...

German media pointed out the campaign's similarity to one pushed by the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which has since been renamed the Heimat, in 2013. At the time, the right-wing ...

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

DW examines how German parties get their money. Less than two weeks before the general election, an anti-corruption watchdog has urged a reform of Germany's "opaque" party funding laws.

After coming second in Germany's recent election, the far-right AfD party now holds even more parliaments ... "Whether you are German is decided between your ears, not on paper." ...

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul ...

"Several thousand BSW votes have apparently been incorrectly allocated to other parties or deemed invalid," the party's eponymous leader Sahra Wagenknecht was quoted as saying by paper the ...

Vice President Vance met Friday with a leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, making him the highest-ranking U.S. official to do so. The vice president met with Alice ...

Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s second-largest.

Germany’s conservative bloc and the Social Democrats agreed to deepen talks over forming a new government, a step forward as ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) completed preliminary talks on Saturday ...

But these incidents haven’t stopped the AfD’s success: The party is projected to come in second in Sunday’s national elections and win about 20 percent of votes. The far-right German AfD ...