Following the achieve­ments of the AfD — and the equally xeno­phobic and Russia-friendly BSW — in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, commen­ta­tors are outdoing them­selves in alarmism. Writing on the day after the election, Alan Posener takes a critical look at these developments.

French election campaigns are usually desper­ately navel-gazing. Foreign policy issues are all but absent from the debate. And even in ‘ordinary’ times, all main­stream evening news programmes consider inter­na­tional news...

A summary of the elections in Bavaria, one of the major German states with more then 9 million voters.

What the decision for another „Grand Coalition” led by Chan­cellor Merkel implies for Germany, EU and the Transat­lantic Alliance.

During the election campaign, appealing to people’s anger and demo­nizing the opponents is the most common strategy. Political programs hardly matter. The political landscape is highly frag­mented. In election polls,...

The five AfD Members of the Bundestag from Saxony are among the most radical in the party’s (Alter­na­tive for Germany) parlia­men­tary group. At a party event near Pirna, the party base...