German populist politician Sahra Wagenknecht said her upstart party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), would absolutely not consider coalition talks with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD ...

German political newcomer Sahra Wagenknecht has expressed her "joy" and "relief" at the performance of her party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), in the European elections. "There is great ...

From a stage in Brandenburg an der Havel, an hour outside Berlin, Sahra Wagenknecht pauses for a moment, 20 minutes into her speech. The former communist and rising political leader looks out at a ...

ERFURT, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was attacked with pink paint on Thursday at a campaign rally in the eastern German state of Thuringia, where her ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, a German parliament member whose country is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally, issued a new warning over the possibility of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war spilling ...

A high-profile German opposition politician on Monday formally founded a new party that combines left-wing economic policy with a restrictive approach to migration and other positions that some ...

The self-described "left conservative" rebel who outperformed her old allies believes Berlin should not support Kyiv amid Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion and that Germany should be much less open ...

BERLIN — When Sahra Wagenknecht graduated from an East German high school in 1988, she could recite Goethe’s play Faust by heart, and it was Thomas Mann’s novel based on the same legend that later ...

Die Unfassbare – the incredible one. That was the headline that Germany's leading news weekly, Der Spiegel, used to describe the political phenomenon that is Sahra Wagenknecht, said Elena Sevillano in ...

She is one of Germany’s most recognised and popular politicians. And yet, Sahra Wagenknecht has never held a ministry, never been the chair of a party, and has spent her career in an outfit that has ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of Germany’s far-left Die Linke party, has launched a new movement. It is called Aufstehen (literally translated, “stand up”). This in itself is not exceptional. Many ...

The Left Party's top candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, had nothing good to say about other German parties in a DW interview. But she says she would be willing to join a coalition ...