Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its best ever result.

When Merkel killed the Maastricht Agreement to bail out Greece, a number of economists started the AfD, as an alternative to the laissez-faire Euro policy of Merkel, Sarkozy, Juncker and co. "The ...

Exit poll expected soon with all eyes on far-right after pivotal vote - Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history ...

If there is one figure who consistently attracts AfD voters’ ire, it is Dr Merkel, who decided to phase out nuclear power after Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster and allowed more than one ...

Morphing into an anti-migration party after former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take in a large wave of refugees in 2015, the AfD entered the national parliament in 2017 ...

Was the report on the causes of the pandemic kept under lock and key? Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denies it, and ...

Merkel’s line, in the face of this extraordinary situation, was “Wir schaffen das”: “We’ll manage it.” AfD supporters gather for an election-campaign meeting in eastern Germany on ...

Friedrich Merz's stance on migration In January, Ms Merkel criticised her successor for passing a motion in parliament with the support of the AfD. The former Chancellor accused Mr Merz of going ...

The AfD’s online campaign leveraged its status as a troublesome upstart, founded in 2013 to oppose the economic policies of former Chancellor Angela Merkel. It has opened up new classes of ...

Image: AfD co-leader Alice Weidel. Pic: Times have changed. None of these issues were top priorities for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who retired less than four years ago after 16 years in power.