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

The far-right Alternative for Germany vaulted into second place on Sunday after about a fifth of voters cast their ballot for a party that’s called for a halt to migration and assailed the country’s ...

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

Germany’s AfD party placed second in the 2025 election, fueled by immigration fears, despite its association with neo-Nazis.

Höcke is capable of pulling a big crowd, he is lauded in these parts. The AfD’s victory in the state in elections last year made it the first far right party to win any sort of election since ...

The far-right AfD celebrated a historic election triumph in Germany last month but that has not put to bed the grievances ...

The AfD reached a particularly large number of voters ... leader and Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed victory as he slammed US interference in the country’s election ...

But on Sunday, German voters showed he does not control theirs. The AfD’s central pledge is to counteract the so-called Great Replacement, a conspiracy theory that claims white Europeans or ...

It’s not a surprise. An ascendence of AfD into the mainstream would mark a political upheaval as unprecedented and countercultural as Trump’s victory in the U.S. The party hopes to take an axe ...

Residents of Germany refuse to rest in the resorts of the Baltic Sea due to the high level of support in the regions of the ...

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Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a meeting marred by the absence or curtailed attendance of key members and ...