Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate for the two allied conservative parties (CDU/CSU) who are leading polls ahead of the election on Feb. 23, has long ruled out forming a coalition with the ...

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Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is in a buoyant mood ahead of German elections on Feb. 23. With all other parties forming a “firewall” against it, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s rise in the German parliamentary elections is causing concern in the country, with Social Democratic Party ...

Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is in a buoyant mood ahead of German elections on ...

Germany’s far-right AfD party has aimed fire at the Bauhaus movement, just as the hallowed school of architecture and design nears its centenary milestone. The Bauhaus movement of the 1920s ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is focusing its agenda in next month’s elections on restricting immigration and reversing the current influx ...

In order to govern with such a Brandmauer in place, the AfD would need to secure an absolute majority in the Bundestag. Germany's proportional voting system makes this exceedingly difficult ...

2025 Thousands of demonstrators delayed the start of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) congress on Saturday in the eastern town of Riesa, with protesters blocking access roads and ...

there's only one party that can "save Germany" — the Alternative for Germany. Elon Musk's controversial endorsement of the far-right AfD party has attracted widespread attention to Germany prior to ...

But Germany doesn't use first-past-the-post. It uses a form of "mixed proportional representation" called ... the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). However, the CDU's party constitution ...