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There are good reasons to place a political firewall around the extremists. But mainstream parties must also address the electorate’s loss of trust, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer

The centre ‘may be holding’ but if the far right continues to win elections, the European project faces a rocky few years

Editorial: The emergence of the far right as a political force in eastern Germany is a concern for Europe’s biggest economy

Regional elections in Germany have laid bare a swell of opposition to the government's stance on the conflict in Ukraine at a time when Berlin is already under pressure over its aid for Kyiv.

Mainstream parties should have opposed the far right’s anti-migrant narrative after the Solingen knife attack, not condoned it. In Thuringia, they paid the price, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

Voters want AfD taking part in government, German far-right party insists after results in Thuringia and Saxony

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the results of two regional elections that saw big wins for the far-right AfD and losses for his coalition "bitter" and urged mainstream parties to form governments without "right-wing extremists".

The rise of AfD in recent state elections poses challenges for German government and opposition, impacting the country's political landscape.

Election results in Germany causes consternation across Europe as German chancellor says preliminary results in Thuringia are ‘bitter’

The Alternative for Germany party’s success in two state elections has piled new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious government and left the country’s main opposition party facing political contortions to find a way to govern a pair of eastern regions without involving the far right party

Germany's far-right AfD was Monday celebrating a landmark win in a regional vote, sending a shot across the bows of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government a year ahead of national elections.