When evening draws in, there is no escape from the towering windmills of Crivitz, a town where homeowners live on the front line of Germany’s energy crisis.

The AfD may not end up controlling Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state despite a landslide election victory, but the far-right party's "dream result" sends a clear message.

The German welfare organization AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) has sounded the alarm about the potential impact of a possible mass departure of migrants and its consequences for the care sector. The warning comes in response to the landslide election success of the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The party recently secured a historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt, another former state in the German Democratic Republic, as East Germany was known, and is on track to come first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s regional election on Sunday, polling at about 37 per cent.

BERLIN (AP) — Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has established itself as a significant political force in the 13 years since its founding, but it has never been part of any state or federal government. That’s a result of what is often called a “firewall” against cooperation with the anti-immigrant, far-right party.

The AfD has put the fight against wind turbines at the core of its election strategy. Could a win in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt slow down Germany’s energy transition?

The founder of a minor populist party that has emerged as a potential kingmaker following elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt has accused the far-right Alternative for Germany