His grandfather came from Turkey decades ago to work in the coal mines of the western German town of Gelsenkirchen, but ...

BERLIN — Germany's foreign ministry hit back at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he criticized the decision to ...

In a move that has shaken Germany’s political landscape, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has cautioned against hastily ...

Far-right parties have been gaining ground across Europe and the AfD attracts international attention, including support from ...

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution described the party as a threat to the country’s democratic order.

When German conservative leader Friedrich Merz takes power next week, he will quickly have to grapple with a tough question: ...

Germany's domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, setting off a ...

The reclassification — AfD was previously designated a “suspected” extremist group — is likely to reignite debate over a ...

The designation is certain to inflame debates over whether the party should be banned, though some polls show it to be the ...

Mr Merz’s prosperous upbringing in the Sauerland, a well-to-do, rural Catholic region in Germany’s west, and his early career ...

BERLIN — The sturdiest pillars of Germany’s domestic and international identity have been pulverized with such dizzying speed ...

The CDU’s Friedrich Merz is set to become chancellor once a governing coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) gets to work next month. CDU heavyweight Jens Spahn, a former health minister, told Bild ...