Dutch far right leader Geert Wilders is being sidelined by geopolitical developments elsewhere, writes journalist Gordon Darroch. Just three weeks ago Geert Wilders seemed to be a roll. Donald Trump ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

The German elections are, in many respects, paradoxical. The electoral shifts, which saw the major parties’ combined vote ...

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...

A New York Times profile describes Weidel, 46, as someone who can be alternately charming and biting, and who speaks clearly ...

Parade is the highlight of Germany's carnival celebrations, particularly in cities like Cologne, Dusseldorf and Mainz.

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party achieved its best result ever in Sunday's election. It is now set to be the main ...

Leadership from Berlin will be essential to safeguard Europe against Russia and ward off election interference from America.

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled The Russian Menace to Europe. The ...

The victory of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Friedrich Merz was met with relief in Ukraine. The ...