Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more.

Germany's coalition government is "on the right track" ahead of an ambitious legislative session, a leading member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) said on Thursday. Matthias Miersch, ...

Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday vowed reforms and new investments as the country's centrist parties signed a coalition agreement and announced additional members of the cabinet.

AfD finished second in Germany's national election in February with over 20% of the vote and is now the biggest opposition party. The party, with which mainstream parties refuse to work, has continued ...

BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc sought to win over the environmentalist Greens for a possible coalition Tuesday as the parties that hope for a share of power in ...

The German parliament, the Bundestag, is debating the 2026 federal budget this week, which is due to be adopted on Friday. As we wrote in an earlier article, it is a war budget. The Merz government ...

Co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel and co-leader of AfD Tino Chrupalla (left) in Berlin on February 23, 2025, after the ...

BERLIN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The parliament of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt elected Economy Minister Sven Schulze on Wednesday to succeed outgoing premier Reiner Haseloff, who stepped down ...