Nobody is. Although that was claimed at times during the election campaign, none of us want to close the borders," he said in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

German elections live: Far right Afd’s surge is ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, victorious Merz says - Friedrich Merz set to become new chancellor after provisional results show his ...

A candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), Robert Sesselmann (center), celebrates his victory in Sunday's district elections in Sonneberg, in Thuringia.

AfD won its state election in Thuringia on Sunday under one of its hardest-right figures, Björn Höcke. In Saxony, the party finished only just behind the mainstream conservative Christian ...

Leader of far right AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election.

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, at a rally last month. The party’s popularity has slipped since the last elections, but the AfD looks likely to stay in Parliament.

The AfD of 2021 is more established, but also more radical. With Angela Merkel set to step down after 16 years in office following this weekend’s election, all eyes are on who is poised to ...

Thuringia right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader Bjoern Hoecke reacts after first exit polls of the Brandenburg state election, in Potsdam, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024.

The projections, based on exit polls and partial counting, put support for Merz’s Union bloc around 28.5% and the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, about 20.5% — roughly double its result from ...

Preliminary results the morning after Sunday’s elections in the two states saw the AfD with a clear win in Thuringia, with 32.8 percent of votes — marking the first time that the far right has ...