LEIPZIG, Germany — The rise of the far right has hit German politics like an earthquake — especially in the former Communist East Germany and among voters under 60. But in the gritty Connewitz ...

The German government Friday dismissed rumours that Chancellor Friedrich Merz's rivals were laying the groundwork to oust him as his popularity craters, reforms stall and the far right gains in ...

Germany’s centrist establishment has long scorned the far left, but it is increasingly reliant on leftists to outmaneuver the far right in crucial votes in Parliament. By Clay Risen Reporting from ...

As the German capital went dark after an extremist group set fire to a cable bridge, leaving residents without power for days, the nation’s political deeper crisis came to light. Berlin’s authorities ...

When the Christian Democratic Union won the German parliamentary elections in February, it was far from a reassuring victory. The Alternative for Germany, the nation’s most prominent right-wing ...

Berlin, Munich, and the Rhine-Ruhr region have submitted their final proposals for a potential German Olympic bid to the German Olympics body DOSB, the organization said in a statement on Friday.

Heidi Reichinnek, a leader of the far-left Die Linke, was denied a seat on the parliamentary committee that oversees German intelligence agencies. By Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley ...

As one European nationalist party saw its grip on power end abruptly in Hungary over the weekend, another was riding a wave of popularity that is strengthening its hold on German politics. The ...

Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office a year ago vowing to revive the political centre, but the far-right AfD party has risen to the top of the polls while his own coalition's ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...