As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

With international politics in flux, three leading historians give their views on the most consequential election in a ...

Last month, he brought a nonbinding motion calling for many more migrants to be turned back at Germany's borders to ...

As Dr Weidel took the stage in Halle, the crowd started a chant that was a not-too-subtle play on a Nazi slogan, “Everything ...

As Germany heads to parliamentary polls on Sunday (February 23), the spotlight will be firmly placed on the divisive ...

The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been endorsed by Donald Trump - and looks set to make huge gains in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party has been polling above 20% ahead of tomorrow's German federal election and looks ...

The AfD has won new support in western states from voters frustrated by Germany's weak economy, seeking curbs on migration, ...

Alice Weidel's Alternative for Germany (AfD) could become the second-largest party in the German parliament after Sunday's ...

Germany's elections are taking place on Sunday, and it is the party set to finish second that is attracting much of the ...