This election in Brandenburg, a region surrounding Berlin, was particularly important for Scholz because the state has been a Social Democratic Party stronghold since the 1990s when former communist ...

Polls opened on Sunday in the German state of Brandenburg, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is projected to finish first, aiming to build on recent successes in other eastern ...

Brandenburg's election drew a record turnout for the federal state, with 72.9% of voters participating in the election. The surprise results appeared to be driven by a rejection of AfD.

Israeli flags. Guitar music. Bicycles. Strollers, dogs, and thick sweaters. Here at the Brandenburg Gate on a sunny October Sunday, 20,000 people gathered, united by the ideals of the modern ...

The vote in Brandenburg comes three weeks after the Russia-friendly AfD became the first far-right party to top a state election in Germany since World War II.

The embattled center-left party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany scored a hard-fought and narrow victory over the far-right ethnonationalist party, Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, in an ...

IT WAS NOT just any German regional election. The vote on September 22nd in Brandenburg, one of Germany’s 16 Länder, was the last big statewide election before the federal one next autumn ...

BRANDENBURG, Germany — Deep in the pine woods just southeast of Berlin is a massive Tesla factory that opened earlier this year as Europe's first manufacturing outpost for Elon Musk's electric ...