Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has formally designated the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as extremist — a move likely to further isolate the group that has emerged as the ...

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election , while far-right party AfD surged to become the nation's second-largest.

Germany is the second NATO member, after Poland, to back this plan, and Merz has joined France, the U.K., and Poland in a push to bring Russia to peace talks with Ukraine.

Karsten Wildberger, for example, led MediaMarktSaturn, Germany’s biggest electronics retailer, until this year. Now he will become Germany’s first digitization and modernization minister.