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

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

CDU and AfD voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Berlin’s left-wing ruling coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens. Both ...

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After then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1 million refugees in 2015, the AfD, whose leadership by that time Weidel had joined, turned its attention to stronger ...

With Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz ... he voted together with the AfD, which was one of the very controversial moments. I sometimes am not sure if the strategy of Merz is really thoughtful ...

But a historic rise in support for Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has left ... "We now miss the days when Mrs. Merkel was in charge of the government," he said, ...

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Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

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 ...

BERLIN — Germany’s federal election on Sunday is widely expected to result in a drubbing for the current chancellor, set a longtime rival of Chancellor Angela Merkel on the path to become ...