Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), will be the next chancellor - but will exclude second place AfD ...

Germany’s far-right AfD party have surged to an historic second place in national elections, securing an unprecedented ...

Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not end the groundswell of support for it, noting it was key ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD ...

Social Democratic Party (SPD) chairman Lars Klingbeil states after the party's executive committee closed meeting at the Willy Brandt House. Joerg Carstensen/dpa The leadership of Germany's Social ...

Following the collapse of the German coalition government this week, billionaire Mark Cuban used Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on X, formerly Twitter, to investigate a comment by the ...

Shortly before last weekend’s German elections, Elon Musk predicted on his X platform that “it is only a matter of time before AfD wins.” The extreme right-wing Alternative für Deutschland ...