Tino Chrupalla, said his trip to Washington for Donald Trump's inauguration is an opportunity to establish political and economic contacts with the new US leadership. Paying respect to Trump, who will be sworn in as president at noon (1700 GMT) in Washington,

Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right German political party suspected of extremism by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, said it has accepted an invite to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

Germany's The Left believes conservative leader Friedrich Merz, likely to be the country's next chancellor, could cooperate with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) after elections on February 23.