She has always been a familiar face to the German public, cropping up constantly on TV news debates and even taking part in a ...

Germany isn't building walls to put an end to mass migration. But the country is tightening its borders — and prompting a ...

Squeezed out of top-level politics by his arch party rival Angela Merkel more than two decades ago, Friedrich Merz is on ...

German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz has continued to line up support for his chancellor candidacy in next ...

German politics have always been under transatlantic pressure, yet today's far-right/left movements may challenge that ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany is poised to do very well in Brandenburg state elections over the weekend. With seven ...

Christopher F. Schuetze is a reporter for The Times based in Berlin, covering politics, society and culture in Germany, ...

The political landscape in Germany is undergoing a seismic shift, as evidenced by the recent state election in Thuringia. For ...

Germany's top court has rejected a pair of appeals from the far-right AfD concerning the absence of its lawmakers chairing ...

If the chancellor’s SPD party loses a crucial regional election to the far right on Sunday, it could lead to his ouster from ...

The third and final eastern German state of Brandenburg heads to the polls in just a couple of days. With the government ...

After strong showings in two other state elections in eastern Germany, the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany ...