Two security guards stand watch outside a small castle hosting a campaign event for the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Many supporters are unsettled by turbulent modern times and yearn for a return to a stable past. Read more at ...

Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is in second place in opinion polls, at around 22%, behind the CDU/CSU ...

Admittedly, I didn’t understand the appeal at first – but for many this monthly no-lose lottery is a fun way to save, writes Talia Loderick ...

MUNICH, Germany (AP) — More than 200,000 protesters rallied in Munich, Germany, on Saturday against far-right extremism ahead ...

Christian Democratic Union will neither enter coalition talks with the AfD nor form a minority government, ex-chairman Armin ...

Spain has been receiving some lavish praise of late in the British press. ‘Booming Spain is on track to a new age of ...

Extremely popular’ head of state and IMF boss was ‘virtually unknown’ before achieving ‘great things’ for Germany, says ...

He became Germany's head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put forward by then opposition leader Angela Merkel ... He was born in 1943 to German parents in German-occupied Poland.

open image in gallery Angela Rayner was stripped from her role as chair and campaign coordinator after the party suffered a devastating loss in the Hartlepool by-election of May 2021. (PA Archive ...