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 ...

Chancellor Merz’s new hardline course promises to accelerate the EU’s rightward pivot on migration as the bloc prepares to ...

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has adopted a code of conduct for its members, without changing its positions on ...

The controversy surrounding the election of a judge to the Federal Constitutional Court shows how the far-right AfD is being ...

Designated Chancellor Friedrich Merz reacts to the result of the first round of the voting during a session at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament), as MPs are to elect Germany's next ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has criticized the behaviour of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) during President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's speech in the Bundestag on the 80th ...

Friedrich Merz after failing to be elected as chancellor at the Bundestag, Berlin, May 6, 2025. AP/Markus Schreiber Finally in power, Mr. Merz faces a fork in the road when it comes to dealing with ...

Most Germans don't trust him, not least because of his approach to the far-right AfD.Friedrich Merz has failed in his first attempt to become the Federal Republic's 10th chancellor on May 6.

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany’s modern history, he lost the parliament’s initial vote and ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, arrives at a news conference the day after German parliamentary elections on Feb. 24 in Berlin.

Should Merz become chancellor, the AfD would be the main opposition party in parliament just days after it was declared an “extremist” group by Germany’s Office for the Protection of the ...

Germany’s new chancellor is reshaping Europe’s geopolitical landscape, pushing China away, boosting NATO, and strengthening ...