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

The leader of the German far right is in a relationship with Sarah Bossard despite her party's advocacy of the traditional ...

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

Germany’s federal elections took place this weekend, with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian ...

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

Alice Weidel, the first ever candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the post of Chancellar, lives ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

"Under Alice Weidel, the party has lost its horror for many voters, and Weidel's numerous TV appearances have accelerated the normalisation of the AfD," it said. Weidel in January took part in a ...

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to many to lead Germany's far-right and anti-immigration AfD into Sunday's ...