The real winners of the German election are the hard-right leader Alice Weidel and her White House friends, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Whatever Friedrich Merz’s plans are, he must expect ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...

German journalists refuse to interview the party’s Beatrix von Storch, but I went to see her in Berlin.

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...

If Germany wishes to move forward, it must abandon the convenient illusions of simplistic solutions and address the ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MAXIMILIAN KRAH: (Speaking German). SCHMITZ: A viral social media post shows AfD politician Maximilian Krah saying, "real men are right-wing. Real men have ideals.

We are currently experiencing a time of widespread and dangerous division. Donald Trump is dividing the US, the US government is dividing the democratic West, the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

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Bulgaria is set to become the latest member of the European single currency. The move is painted as an almost natural march ...

Driven by the AfD, the issue of ‘illegal’ immigration was at the centre of the election campaign. The inhuman racism aggressively propagated by the AfD led to a massive political shift to the right of ...

Hanging in Hamburg with DJ Koze, as the iconoclastic German producer talks politics, privacy, and his new album, 'Music Can Hear Us' ...

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