The AfD took between 30.5 and 33.5 percent of the vote in Thuringia, according to exit polls, with the conservative CDU in second place at around 24.5 percent. The CDU had its nose in front with ...

The political party that made gains in regional polls is labelled ‘right-wing extremist’ by Germany’s security services.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) said Wednesday it was throwing out three party members who were arrested on suspicion of having joined an extremist paramilitary group.

Christian churches in Thuringia are standing by the Muslim community ... In recent state elections, the right-wing AfD ...

Germany's domestic security agency has labelled the AfD in both Saxony and Thuringia as a "confirmed" extremist organization, giving intelligence services sweeping powers to spy on its activities.

Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to ...

There are many preconceptions about life in eastern Germany, but what is it actually like to live there? We spoke to foreign ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...