CDU and AfD voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Berlin’s left-wing ruling coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens. Both ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its best ever result.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

Exit poll expected soon with all eyes on far-right after pivotal vote - Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history ...

AfD is projected to receive the second-highest ... He’s a longtime rival of Merkel who had left politics after she ascended to power in Germany, and previously lost two votes to lead the CDU ...

If there is one figure who consistently attracts AfD voters’ ire, it is Dr Merkel, who decided to phase out nuclear power after Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster and allowed more than one ...

Morphing into an anti-migration party after former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take in a large wave of refugees in 2015, the AfD entered the national parliament in 2017 ...

Over the years, AfD became more radical and repeatedly changed leaders. It was Merkel’s decision in 2015 to allow in large numbers of migrants that supercharged it as a political force ...

AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice ... its popularity driven by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 refugee policy, which allowed more than a million asylum seekers into Germany.