Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), has celebrated the Bundestag vote in favour of more rejections at Germany's borders as a "great day for democracy." It was clear "sensible proposals can be adopted,

A day after Donald Trump's inauguration as US president, the mood was jubilant at a small Berlin campaign event of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, despite the biting winter cold.

Trade union announces transport warning strikes in Berlin, Elon Musk's portrait removed from Munich's Deutsches Museum, Scholz raises questions about Afghan knife attacker, and more news from around Germany on Thursday.

With a month until Germany votes in the nationwide election, Brian Melican examines the growing influence of the AfD during the campaign – and explains why, in the short term, there is no way of stopping the far-right party’s rise in the polls.

A rejected Afghan asylum-seeker killed two people and left several others injured in a stabbing in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

Musk last year used X and his vast wealth to help get Republican Donald Trump re-elected US president. Now he is becoming vocal in his support for far-right and anti-establishment parties across...