For the first time since World War II, a far-right party has a house speaker in a German state parliament. And Germany's ...

WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party scored a pivotal victory for the far-right in Germany, an outcome churches fiercely fought to prevent. Their inability to stop ...

At its first session, the new state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt is to vote on a speaker nominated by the far-right AfD. The foreign minister has warned that the climate crisis could fuel extremism. DW ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz canceled a planned phone call with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Sept. 9, after the U.S. president praised the performance of Germany’s most successful ...

WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The sun was setting over the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation, and polls were set to close in an hour for a high-stakes election in Saxony-Anhalt, when the youth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheering and clapping, Germany's far-right AfD celebrated another regional election win Sunday as exit polls placed it narrowly ...

German Unity Day 2026 marks 36 years of freedom and reunification — and how the fall of the Berlin Wall transformed German ...

Abdu, an Egyptian software developer, ended up in Germany's capital more or less by chance seven years ago. "I wouldn't say I chose Berlin," he told DW. "It was just that the company that offered me a ...

BERLIN – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered a bruising electoral setback in two state elections on Sunday, including a historic defeat for his party, but vowed to press ahead with potentially ...

All eight CDU state premiers have backed Friedrich Merz, urging the party to focus on rebuilding trust. Plus, Germany's coalition is weighing rapid relief as record fuel prices pile pressure on ...

The only factor in the AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt victory that the party secured on its own was the way it organized its campaign. In the 2026 cycle, the AfD reached out to voters before its rivals did, ...