German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he will ask for a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, paving the way forward for an early ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is bringing forward its national party conference from March to January in light ...

Germany's biggest political parties have agreed on a timetable leading to an early election in February after Chancellor ...

Other parties took to the stand to make their election bids with the AfD’s candidate for Chancellor, Alice Weidel, pledging ...

The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new ...

Following the breakdown of the centre-left coalition in Berlin, the opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ...

Raids saw hundreds of police swoop on 20 locations linked to what prosecutors called a domestic terrorist group in eastern Germany and neighboring Poland.

Alice Weidel likes to talk about Germany’s past — but she’s talked less about that of her own family. As co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Weidel has urged her country to move ...

The political world changed on 5 November with the victory of the Trumpist authoritarians in the USA. Trump’s victory has set the alarm bells about far-right advance ringing louder and shriller, and ...

Alice Weidel, his granddaughter, is seen by some as the presentable face of the AfD and has been floated as a potential candidate for chancellor in next year’s parliamentary elections.

German opposition parties and business groups are urging chancellor Olaf Scholz to trigger new elections after his government collapsed Wednesday, plunging the economy into political turmoil.