There is a determination among all of Germany's main parties to keep that block in place - and the German public backs them ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

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

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

Jürgen Hardt, member of the German parliament, discusses the CDU’s election win and and challenges from the far right with ...

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

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...

The Alternative for Germany still has pariah status among other major political parties in a country where far-right politics ...

Last night’s German election continues the global story of the collapse of the 20th century’s stable two-party system.

Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...

Immigration is the defining issue not only of the Feb. 23 election, where AfD has a strong foothold, but the entirety of ...

GERMANY’S hard-right party has had its strongest showing since World War Two, exit polls suggest, taking 19.5 per cent of the ...