The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next election.

Alice Weidel, a gay woman with a Sri Lankan partner, leads Germany's far-right AfD, which opposes same-sex marriage and ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after early results show his conservative Christian Democratic ...

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.

As Dr Weidel took the stage in Halle, the crowd started a chant that was a not-too-subtle play on a Nazi slogan, “Everything ...

But soon after his speech at the Munich Security Conference, in which he stunned the room by comparing democracy in today’s Europe to Soviet-era totalitarianism, Mr. Vance met with Alice Weidel ...

He is a supporter of the European Union and Nato, and has in the past advocated for an “army of Europe.” Co-leaders of the AfD, Weidel and Tino Chrupalla (REUTERS) Alice Weidel, 46 ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the countrys second-largest political party, marking a dramatic rise in ...