BERLIN — The extremist youth group affiliated with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) dissolved itself on Monday to avert a possible ban that might have damaged the party as it tries to ...

BERLIN (AP) — Alternative for Germany surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday's national election and became the strongest political force in parts of the ...

(Michael Kappeler/ dpa Picture Alliance via AFP) BERLIN (CN) — Germany's oldest political party is in crisis. The incumbent Social Democrats' 16.4% showing in February federal elections was its worst ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Julia Kloeckner, right, talks to CDU leader Friedrich Metz after ...

Despite that, the SPD is Merz's only prospective partner for forming the strong two-party coalition he is aiming ... placed far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). This puts the SPD in a position ...

The national election was disastrous for Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Voters have been fleeing it in droves. Its recent victory in Hamburg isn't doing much to lift the mood.

With the all-powerful Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) on the verge of dissolution after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, he became party leader and succeeded in doing what ...

BERLIN—Germany will exempt military spending from its strict fiscal rules and create an off-budget fund of 500 billion euros to finance infrastructure spending, laying the ground for a big boost ...

But a text published on Saturday, March 1 by the radical left-wing party sets drastic conditions: Yes to an abolition of the "debt brake" to invest in Germany and "civil" support for Ukraine ...

The co-leaders of the Green Party of Germany - Felix Banaszak and Franziska Brantner, left - join the party's parliamentary group co-leaders Britta Hasselmann and Katharina Droege (right ...