Germany's incoming conservative leader Friedrich Merz pledged a spirited defence of Ukraine and of democratic values Monday ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has topped a national poll for the first time, prompting the popular Bild newspaper to carry the headline: “AfD breaks the magic barrier”. The poll put the ...

Lars Klingbeil, Germany's next vice chancellor and finance minister, is an experienced Social Democrat lawmaker who has sat ...

Frustration with established parties across Europe has created openings the right has been quick to fill. Can a divided left ...

The Kennedy-era program to protect workers displaced by foreign competition was always too miserly to make much of a ...

Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss ...

DER SPIEGEL's coverage of the far-right AfD is commendable, writes media critic Bernhard Poerksen. But there are several ...

Centrist parties seek to impose tighter controls on public debate, all in the name of democracy.

The rightist AfD is now polling as the country’s most popular party.

On his social media platform X, Elon Musk posts hundreds of messages denigrating European values, which he deems too "woke", ...

Just months after Vice President J.D. Vance admonished European officials for censoring citizens, a new German governing ...

By the time Germany's next elections roll around, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party hopes to be the country's strongest political power. Voter frustration is helping, but does the party ...