In May Merz became the first postwar chancellor to stumble into power on the second vote when he failed to secure an absolute ...

Atlantic alliance.

Meanwhile he has drawn admirers around the world, including US Vice President JD Vance and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. US President Donald Trump has called Orban "smart" and "a tough ...

French authorities have started a criminal inquiry into X, Elon Musk’s social media company, raising the stakes in its ...

This odious book with endless distorted references to biology and race may be a century old, but while researching his documentary, John Kampfner discovered a popular revival of its core message today ...

Germany’s Bundestag debated the national budget on Wednesday and the far-right AfD party leapt at the chance to blame immigrants for feeding off the welfare state. The data, however, suggests that the ...

In a general debate in the German Bundestag, the leader of the right-wing populist party AfD, Alice Weidel, sharply attacked Chancellor Friedrich Merz. In her speech, she also attacked the government ...

For eight years, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the Bundestag as a launch pad for ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

AfD leader Alice Weidel fiercely criticised German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in parliament, highlighting what she called hypocrisy in Germany's financial policy. Weidel challenged Merz on prioritising ...

Germany's far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel launched a fiery attack on CDU chief Friedrich Merz in parliament, slamming his ...