Having secured nearly a third of votes in both states, the AfD party has more support in Thuringia and Saxony now than ever before. What does this mean for the political landscape in Germany?

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

CDU rules out entering a coalition with the AfD after regional elections, former German president calls for the national anthem to be sung more often and more news from around Germany on Monday.

Germany’s far-right AfD has won its first regional election, taking between 30.5 and 33.5 percent of the vote in the former East German state of Thuringia, exit polls showed on Sunday.

Voters in two former East German states began casting ballots Sunday in elections expected to deal a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government and deliver big gains for the far-right AfD.

From inflation dropping to under two percent to supermarket Edeka’s advert against the AfD ahead of elections and the ‘sugar bag’ loved by German schoolchildren, here’s what we’re talking about this week.

A woman stabbed and wounded five people in a bus in western Germany on Friday, police said, one week after a deadly knife attack that shook the country.

Prices for long-haul flights have fallen by an average of two percent compared to 2023. But which German airport has the cheapest deals?

US citizens in Germany can hit the road and drive freely with their US licence for up to six months after their arrive. After that they need a German licence. But what it takes to do so varies widely from state to state.

Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel is known as a crime hotspot in Germany, but deputy head of Frankfurt City Council Gregor Amann believes it is slowly starting to improve – and that there are positives to be found in the area.