Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

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

Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner because in her heart she is not really a conservative. Merkel maneuvered behind the scenes to peel off some CDU lawmakers ...

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Friedrich Merz had to wait a long time for the electoral victory he achieved on Sunday. Twenty-five years ago, he was considered one of the leading candidates to head the conservative Christian ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) looks set to become the second largest party in the German parliament following elections on February 23. Polls& ...

Morphing into an anti-migration party after former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take in a large wave of refugees in 2015, the AfD entered the national parliament in 2017 ...

A brash economic liberal who has shifted the conservatives to the right, he is considered the antithesis of former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who led Germany ... migration and how to deal ...

Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel criticised her successor for passing a motion in parliament with the support of the AfD. The former Chancellor accused Mr Merz of going ...