Germany Germany: Far-right AfD attempts to bridge rifts ahead of key election The AfD is holding a two-day congress this weekend ahead of Germany's September federal election, which will mark the end of Chancellor Angela Merkel's era. 10/04/2021
Europe News The German Constitutional Court has blocked the EU's recovery fund. What happens now? In a surprising decision, the court prevented the German President from signing off the ratification of the legal text that would enable the Commission to raise funds on the capital markets. 30/03/2021
Germany German reunification: Thirty years on, is the job done? Less than a year after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany was a united country again. 03/10/2020
Germany AfD official said migrants ‘could be shot or gassed’ - reports Christian Lueth was fired by the far-right #AfD party in #Germany after he was reportedly caught on camera saying migrants coming to the country “could still be shot later on...or gassed." 28/09/2020
Germany Why isn't VE Day a public holiday in Germany? A movement is growing to make May 8 a holiday to mark the end of World War Two. 08/05/2020
Germany Hamburg election: Greens make major gains, AfD support falls The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) may be out of the Hamburg state legislature after failing to gather the required 5% of votes. 23/02/2020
Germany Alternative for Germany slammed for 'legitimising deadly racism' Activists are warning there is a “whole web of potential violent terrorists” linked to the democratically elected AfD party in Germany 21/02/2020
Germany Germany's far-right AfD party apologises over 'racist' colouring books Police in Germany are investigating 'racist' colouring books distributed by a faction of Alternative for Germany. 20/02/2020
Germany Rallies in east Germany after ruling party votes with far-right party Rallies condemned ruling CDU party after it teamed up with far-right AfD party to vote the leader of the state of Thuringia out of office on February 5th. 15/02/2020
Germany Merkel successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to quit over vote fiasco Merkel successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she will quit her role as head of the CDU after the party was criticised over a regional election in Thuringia. 10/02/2020
Germany German right-wing MP closes eyes and slumps during Holocaust speech German right-wing MP closes eyes and slumps during Holocaust speech 29/01/2020
View The EU’s Far Right surge is unstoppable if we don’t transform how our democracies work ǀ View Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, could well be the first major industrial power to fall in a global recession, triggering a Far Right victory that could have a domino effect across the EU. 04/09/2019
Germany German far-right invokes 1989 spirit to woo voters in the east In the eastern states of Saxony and Brandenburg, three decades after the country's reunification, many voters still feel left behind – and the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is invoking the spirit of the 1989 revolution to try to win them over. 30/08/2019
Germany Angela Merkel's CDU wins Gorlitz Mayor race, beating far-right AfD The German city of Gorlitz backed Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat candidate Octavian Ursu as mayor in a run-off vote against the far-right AfD party 17/06/2019
Germany 'Gorliwood' rejects far-right candidate in favour of Romanian migrant AfD candidate Sebastian Wippel would have been the country's first mayor from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party but did not manage to defeat the CDU candidate in the second round. 16/06/2019
View Did Merkel’s handling of the migrant crisis seal her fate? | View Euronews asks political analyst Leopold Traugott about what impact the news of Angela Merkel’s long goodbye will have on Germany and the rest of Europe. 30/10/2018
View Bavarian election: Do not forget the biggest loser, SPD! | View SPD’s vote actually halved, from 20.6% in 2013, to just 9.7%! This marks the party’s worst result in Bavaria since the 1930s, and is the first state parliament now where they have fallen below the symbolic 10% threshold in recent history - a painful exercise for a former Volkspartei. 15/10/2018
Germany Germans march against far right ahead of election Hundreds of thousands have gathered in Berlin to march against the far right. Activist groups representing migrants, the LGBTQ+ community, workers and the homeless, walked the streets together. 13/10/2018
