Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more.

Self-evidently, strikes are nothing new in Germany. In fact, they date back over 200 years. Yet for the first hundred years of that history, German conservatives deliberately engineered the ...

Brandenburg's premier, Dietmar Woidke, plans to lead a minority government following the collapse of the coalition with the ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Heidi Reichinnek, a leader of Germany’s ...

Though a relief for the governing coalition, the far-right Alternative for Germany nearly tripled its vote share in North Rhine-Westphalia versus five years ago. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...