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

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