If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and has become a ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

AfD has support across Germany and is represented in all but two of the 16 state legislatures, but the party is strongest in ...

Inciting hatred against migrants, rearmament, and cuts in social provisions stood at the centre of the recent prime-time ...

German national elections approaching with migration at the forefront, leading parties CDU and AfD call for stricter ...

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...