While Germany attempts to form its new government, only four of its political parties will have the chance to become part of ...

Another major factor is China's speedy shift from low-value manufacturing to high-tech and innovative industries, driven by ...

“There’s a sense of momentum throughout the party.” The Left, which traces some of its roots back to East Germany’s communist party, is doing particularly well at appealing to young voters across the ...

RFI/Jan van der Made Die Linke is an offspring of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) that ruled communist East Germany for seven decades. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ...

And while young German women voted in droves for the far left, more than a quarter of Young German men voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AFD, party, a party whose members rail ...

“Leave your colorful butterflies and lay your axe to the edifice of the capitalist economic order.” — Eugen Leviné ...

Initially a eurosceptic party, the AfD shifted towards nationalism ... political parties less deeply rooted in eastern Germany due to its communist past. In a couple of western German ...

AfD has support across Germany and is represented in all but two of the 16 state legislatures, but the party is strongest in the formerly communist and less prosperous east. It has a unique ...

Who supports it? AfD has support across Germany and is represented in all but two of the 16 state legislatures, but the party is strongest in the formerly communist and less prosperous east.