The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

German voters are choosing their new government in an election dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe ...

Around 250 protesters demonstrated against AfD leader Alice Weidel in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, where she has a home, leading ...

As Dr Weidel took the stage in Halle, the crowd started a chant that was a not-too-subtle play on a Nazi slogan, “Everything ...

As Germany heads to parliamentary polls on Sunday (February 23), the spotlight will be firmly placed on the divisive ...

On the eve of the Bundestag elections, the INSA sociological institute published fresh data from public opinion polls, ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as Europe re-evaluates relations with the Trump administration.

The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been endorsed by Donald Trump - and looks set to make huge gains in ...

Learn more about Alice Weidel, who is currently leading the AfD Germany’s right-wing, nationalist party, but whose political ...

On Sunday, the country’s residents will vote in a pivotal election in which Ms Weidel's party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), ...