The cordon sanitaire around the AfD necessitated an alliance with the anti-conservative SPD, even though voters had roundly repudiated the party in the most recent election. During the campaign, Merz ...

The German government aims to simplify the recognition of safe countries to expedite asylum processes, bypassing the ...

In national elections, the country’s far right looked ... The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on woke in the Pentagon is serving as a model for Germany’s far right.

He will offer pledges like sharply increase Germany’s Nato spending. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes ...

The Netherlands will hold snap elections on October 29, authorities announced Friday, after far-right leader Geert Wilders ...

Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV ...

President Trump is set to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz next week in Washington, marking the first in-person meeting between the two leaders.  Merz, the leader of the center-right ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz came through his Oval Office encounter with Donald Trump relatively unscathed Thursday -- ...

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And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Merz's meeting with Trump is set for Thursday, June 5, and the two leaders are expected to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war, ...