Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Gerold Otten speaks to the media as co-leader of the far-right party Alice Weidel stands next to him on March 24, 2025, at the Bundestag ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party has voted to replace its existing youth organization with one over which it would have more control. Party leaders have faced problems with some of the ...

In a historic shift in Germany’s political landscape, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the second largest party in the Bundestag, winning 20.8 percent of the vote ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative for Germany movement.

AfD Saxony-Anhalt delegates hold up voting cards at a state party conference in Magdeburg, Germany, on Aug. 7, 2024. (Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa Picture-Alliance via Getty Images) Earlier this month, ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or BfV, on Friday classified the country’s popular Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as ...

Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) are pressing to ban the country’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which placed second in February's federal election, as a “right-wing extremist effort” that ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...