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

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 ...

Alice Weidel said her party could “overtake the ... After his victory, Mr Merz suggested that Europe needed to quickly create its own defence architecture. “It is clear that the Americans ...