Thousands protested against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which the Tesla CEO addressed on Saturday.

The country’s perennial yearning for reassurance is still dominating discourse — but this time around, it’s likely to be in vain.

Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of the Feb. 23 election

Berlin will try to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Germany's health minister said on Tuesday.

Berlin’s envoy Andreas Michaelis denounced Trump’s planned “strategy of maximal disruption”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's ambassador to the United States ... The briefing document, dated Jan. 14 and signed by Ambassador Andreas Michaelis, describes Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption" that will ...

Last September, the AfD became Germany’s first far-right party in post-World War II history to win a state election outright, in the eastern region of Thuringia. Bjoern Hoecke, the state’s party leader, has been repeatedly accused of historical revisionism and convicted of using a Nazi slogan at election rallies.

He noted it would make sense to station EU soldiers in addition to US forces there. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The German news agency dpa is reporting that the German ambassador to Washington wrote in a report back to Berlin that he expects Donald Trump to largely undermine the system of democratic checks and balances during his second term.

There's a fair chance that when historians look back at the era we're currently in, they will describe this - the second inauguration of Donald Trump ... the fall of the Berlin Wall gave way ...

In the leaked cable, a German envoy said he saw US President-elect Donald Trump as a man driven by "desire for vengeance".