Lawmakers in the central German state of Thuringia reconvened on Saturday amid a chaotic deadlock between the far-right ...

Fractured politics and the rise of populist parties means Germany's democracy is facing its "toughest test in recent decades, ...

Lawmakers have elected a mainstream conservative as speaker of the state parliament in eastern Germany’s Thuringia region, putting aside a convention that the strongest party gets the job after the ...

The ruling SPD has just scraped by in a critical electoral test, but a closer look at the numbers show trouble for next ...

An exit poll released after voting ended in a state election in Brandenburg, Germany on Sunday showed the Social Democrats ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far right in a state election in ...

Germany faces chronic underinvestment, weak productivity, aging demographics, geopolitical tensions, and poor performance in ...

According to final results published Sunday evening by the state electoral administration, the Social Democrats won 30.9% of ...

More and more young Germans support the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. It capitalizes on their pessimistic outlook and disappointment with other parties, experts say. When the ...

Three state elections in eastern Germany this month told the same story: The far-right Alternative for Germany is growing in strength and disrupting the political landscape.

Brandenburg is a longstanding stronghold for the party. But it is located in Germany’s relatively impoverished east, where ...

The leaders of Germany’s Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s troubled coalition government, say they ...