Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won Germany's election, yet his personal popularity is low — and getting lower. Most Germans don't trust him, not least because of his approach to the ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the conversation between Elon Musk and Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel began with a straight-up untruth: Alice Weidel, the multibillionaire owner of the ...

The rightist AfD is now polling as the country’s most popular party.

The chancellor-in-waiting's conservatives have reached a coalition agreement with Germany's Social Democrats, five months ...

Modern politics can be brutally unforgiving for incumbent politicians. Yet, for incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz, ...

AfD Co-Chairwoman Alice Weidel celebrated the development in a post on X. “For the first time in the AfD’s short history, we are the strongest party in Germany. Thank you for your tremendous ...

Germany's next leader, the conservative Friedrich Merz ... from the AfD that he has broken campaign pledges and caved in to key demands of the SPD. Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, said Wednesday ...

Germany must accept fewer than 100,000 asylum seekers a year because its public services are “overwhelmed” by immigrants, the ...

Germany's Far-Right AfD Tops Poll for First ... sources told Reuters. AfD leader Alice Weidel hailed her party's polling breakthrough in a post on X. "The people want political change - and ...

Some social media users, including at least one far-right German politician, are complaining that traditional chocolate ...