But the reality is there is a shift to the right across the German political spectrum accompanied by raging Islamophobia. Analysts have pointed to the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The CDU did reasonably well at state elections in Germany’s east earlier this month: it retained control of Saxony, holding ...

Germany’s opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union has chosen its leader, Friedrich Merz, to be its candidate for chancellor in next year’s national election ...

White clouds still billow from the cooling towers of a coal plant near Spremberg in Germany's ex-communist east but the end ...

U.S. voters are willing to contemplate installing Donald Trump in the White House for a second term, an equally significant ...

Dozens of cars and coaches slow to a crawl as they cross the bridge from Poland into Germany, under the watchful eyes of ...

Thuringia was the only state in Germany with a president from left-wing party Die Linke. That was until September 1, when it ...

Germany muscled its way through the Covid-19 pandemic and managed to avoid a devastating industrial shutdown after Russia cut ...

Germany announced plans this week to extend controls to all its land borders and turn away more asylum seekers in a bid to ...

Germany's government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country's land borders in what it called an ...

[EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN] Germany’s centre-right CDU party has cleared the way for coalition talks with left-wing populist alliance BSW and the centre-left SPD in the state of Thuringia after ...

triggering fears for immigrants Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won the regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony, a first for the German far right since the Nazi's were in power in 1945.