AfD

The AfD and the Axe of History

26.02.2025

The figures of the 2025 German federal election slice through the stagnant air like jagged glass, a brutal revelation of a system nearing its own self-inflicted collapse. The CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union) limps forward at 29%, dragging its reanimated corpse through the political landscape, the SPD (Social Democratic Party) slumps to 16%, drowning in its own irrelevance, and the Greens — those eco-puritans in love with multiculturalism and decay — cling desperately to 12%. But the real tremor, the subterranean growl of an awakening beast, comes from the AfD (Alternative for Germany), surging to a staggering 20%, its ascent shaking the foundations of a West that has lost its will to live.

Coalition Deal in Germany

7. February 2018 - 17:47

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union has reached a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats, putting the leader on track to end nearly five months of political gridlock

Eurosceptics defeat Merkel

05.09.2016

In elections to the regional parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Angela Merkel’s party suffered a crushing defeat. Her Christian Democratic Union won only third place behind the right-wing conservative Alternative for Germany party. What’s more, this is the base district of CDU head and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency.