Victory in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday would mark a postwar watershed, making the AfD the first radical right party to govern a German state since 1945

Germany has blamed Russia for sending explosive-laden drone to Leipzig airport used to send military equipment to Ukraine

Minister for Defence Helen McEntee said Russia’s ‘attempted drone attack’ at Leipzig airport was ‘part of a clear trend’

Thirty-one-year-old had just arrived from London and was waiting for train to Austria at time of attack

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

Friedrich Merz and five other leaders demand spending cuts of ‘several hundred billion euros in a balanced manner’

German car giant plans swingeing cuts across its business amid Chinese competition

Shops, restaurants and barbers close in Magdeburg as campaigners warn far-right AfD surge is fuelling fear and division

Right-wing candidate could be on course for one of the greatest political upsets in postwar German history

Principality six times smaller than Dublin has been a slower mover on women’s rights

The arrival of a mining company run by a friend of Donald Trump has aroused fears of a resumption of an existential row on the island

China and South Korea noted what Japan’s prime minister didn’t say

Four years into the Ukraine war, Berlin is still deciding what to do about the Russland-Haus

Berlin politicians fear Germany’s first AfD-led state could hobble federal co-operation

Recent sales figures in China suggest the company is on shaky ground