Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now ... with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed ...

Earlier this year, Merkel accused Merz of turning his back on a previous pledge not to work with Alternative for Germany (AfD) in parliament. You can read more about Merkel's request in January.

After then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1 million refugees in 2015, the AfD, whose leadership by that time Weidel had joined, turned its attention to stronger ...

A brash economic liberal who has shifted the conservatives to the right, he is considered the antithesis of former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel ... to deal with the AfD in a country ...

The party filled the space left by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU which has since shifted towards the political centre. But while the AfD capitalised on Europe’s economic discord ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

the AfD adopted its anti-immigration stance during the migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016. At the time, Germany, under the leadership of chancellor Angela Merkel and her centre-right CDU/CSU-led ...

That move may have spurred the rise of the far-right nationalist AfD ... Party. Merkel is written and directed by Eva Weber and produced by Weber, Sigrid Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett, and Sonja ...