Merz, who took over as party leader in 2022, has since taken the CDU farther to the right, in a bid to reclaim votes from far ...
“We are practically no longer concerned at all, or only very little, with what comes from this coalition,” Friedrich Merz ...
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party is expected to perform strongly in Saxony and Thuringia. The two main rivals for the German chancellorship claim a mandate to govern after a tight ...
Germany’s far right has won the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of ...
Germany is particularly sensitive to the strength of its far right. Its modern democratic structures were developed in the ...
That could leave the Christian Democratic Union, which may end up running both state governments, as the main beneficiary of the vote among traditional mainstream parties. While the results may ...
Many Democratic critics of Christian nationalism have been quick to note their own religious views, carefully drawing a ...