After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll in eastern Germany. Now the second-strongest force in Brandenburg, their success causes concerns ...

Augustus the Strong made plenty of misjudgments, according to Tim Blanning’s brilliant biography – but his bad press hasn’t ...

The ‘basic law’ is designed to prevent the return of national socialism and sets out a comprehensive set of rights for ...

As the Social Democrats have managed to edge ahead of the AfD in the Brandenburg vote, we look at the big winners and losers ...

In what will surely come as a relief to the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, his SPD party has won this weekend’s state ...

The election in the state of 2.5 million people followed other recent polls in states in the east of the country, where the ...

The AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since World War Two, in the eastern state of ...

The latest projections at 8pm on Sunday indicate that the ruling SPD maintains its narrow lead on the far-right AfD, but its ...

The far-right party aims to win in Brandenburg following its victory in Thuringia and second-place finish in Saxony.

On heels of extremist terror attacks in the country, the anti-immigration party hopes to repeat its recent gains in Thuringia ...

With Germany and France fighting political and economic woes on the domestic front, analysts say there’s a danger of a leadership vacuum and more fragmentation.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is predicted to come first in an election in Brandenburg on Sunday, seeking to ...