They're concerned that a gay couple and their child might not be safe in the future if parties like Alternative for Germany, or AfD, gain more power in the formerly communist and less prosperous ...

Eastern Germany is bracing for floods as the catastrophic rains hitting its Central European neighbours threaten to spill ...

Founded in 2013, far-right Alternative für Deutschland – or Alternative for Germany (AfD) - is on track to claim victory in state parliamentary elections in the country’s eastern region of ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won about 32 to 33% of the vote in the east German state of Thuringia, flattening the center right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) group, which brought in ...

Mario Draghi’s recent report on European competitiveness has sounded alarm bells across the continent, particularly in Germany. The former European Central Bank president tells it as it is ...

Germany's Bild tabloid reported that the attacker may have been suffering from mental health issues. The incident comes a week after a deadly knife attack in Solingen that shook the country and ...

There were local elections in several German states a few days ago, and the results — a strong showing by the Alternative for Germany or AfD, a right-wing extremist party — were shocking but ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany says it will cut benefits to refugees facing deportation, part of a package of tough new measures ...

“It’s daily business here that people don’t meet the entry requirements for Germany and perhaps even for the Schengen area and then have to be subjected to further police measures,” Tom ...

Closely watched elections in the former East Germany are likely to reveal a still-divided country and yield a worrying challenge to Berlin. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger traveled for three ...

Volkswagen is weighing whether to close factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history as it moves to deepen cost cuts amid rising competition from China’s electric vehicle makers.

All three parties in Scholz's centre-left coalition suffered painful losses while the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a new anti-establishment populist party booked record gains in ...