The result was not enough to win outright, but certainly enough to shake Germany and Europe to their core: the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) trounced the ruling conservatives in the impoverished…

Exit polls show it winning 44% of vote, but too early to tell if victory will pave way for country's first far-right state government since WWII, as all major parties have ruled…

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