As the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party lose support, each accuses the other of flirting with political extremists

Espionage, state secrets and foreign agents: the case engulfing former head of Germany’s intelligence reads like a spy thriller

August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005

Far-right party’s election manager Tobias Rausch elected to key role on 48 votes, with 29 opposing and five abstentions

Even with super-premium prices and a cost-of-living crisis, visitors drank a record 6.7m litres

While the chancellor struggles and his centre-right CDU bickers, its SPD rival has come out in attack mode

Exit polls suggest change of government to be led by Social Democrats

As voters head to the polls on Sunday, Sweden’s transformation from humanitarian haven to asylum hardliner is under scrutiny

Opposition leader Magdalena Andersson has been clear on the dangers of a new coalition featuring the Sweden Democrats

The AfD is not a Nazi Party 2.0, as many claim. But it wants to end decade-long efforts to understand Nazi crimes, which it claims are a ‘guilt cult’

AfD’s historic victory sets clock ticking on Germany’s postwar constitutional order, chancellor warns

Party trying to form government in Saxony-Anhalt after falling three seats short of a majority

AfD win in Saxony-Anhalt has hit reset button on politics in Europe’s largest country

An election in Saxony-Anhalt has become a defining test of whether Germany’s mainstream can still hold the line

Five EU states plan to send migrants to offshore centres next year