New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not ...

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

Mr. Merz was initially two votes short of winning approval as Germany’s new leader.Credit...Tobias Schwarz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The AfD has gained support in recent years with ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

His countrymen, he declares, will have to ‘engage’ with the AfD, ‘factually and on substance.’ ...

The motion was narrowly approved thanks to votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party. That prompted his ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz's unprecedented first-round failure in the vote to make him German chancellor on Tuesday ...

Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic ... It is much stronger in East Germany than in the West. Many voters support AfD out of conviction rather than protest, with migration being their ...