Weeks before the election, Thuringia's businesses hope that the right-wing AfD party can be reigned in. A xenophobic climate in the state has proved to keep migrants away - but they're desperately ...

The AfD came in first in Thuringia and placed second in Saxony, right on the heels of the Christian Democrats (CDU). Germany’s media and ruling class predictably catastrophized the voting results.

For the first time since 1945 a German far-right party is projected to win in regional elections, exit polls show. Founded in 2013, far-right Alternative für Deutschland – or Alternative for ...

Thuringia is home to dozens of castles and palaces, the legacy of rulings counts, princes and dukes. From the infamous 900-year-old Wartburg Castle in Eisenach , ...

Thuringia, which has a population of 2.1 million,holds state elections on Sept. 1, ... Many students don’t know anything about Africa or about the German past and it must be put on the map. ...

How Germany voted: Election results map shows far-right AfD surge in East as CDU win most seats - The conservative alliance ...

Germany's far-right AfD party took between 30.5 percent and 33.5 percent of the vote in elections in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to exit polls, marking the first time in Germany’s ...

Founded in 2013, far-right Alternative für Deutschland – or Alternative for Germany (AfD) - is on track to claim victory in state parliamentary elections in the country’s eastern region of ...