German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he will ask for a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, paving the way forward for an early parliamentary election in February.

The small party lost popularity in recent elections. The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has said it would ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is bringing forward its national party conference from March to January in light ...

Germany's biggest political parties have agreed on a timetable leading to an early election in February after Chancellor ...

The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new ...

Following the breakdown of the centre-left coalition in Berlin, the opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ...

Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to ...

Raids saw hundreds of police swoop on 20 locations linked to what prosecutors called a domestic terrorist group in eastern Germany and neighboring Poland.

The political world changed on 5 November with the victory of the Trumpist authoritarians in the USA. Trump’s victory has set the alarm bells about far-right advance ringing louder and shriller, and ...

Alice Weidel, his granddaughter, is seen by some as the presentable face of the AfD and has been floated as a potential candidate for chancellor in next year’s parliamentary elections.

After the US elections we need to show we can be relied on,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, adding that “great financial room ...

"Chancellor Scholz has long lost the trust of the German people and he must clear the way for a new election immediately," Alice Weidel, co-chair of the far-right AfD, put it after the government ...