The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to become the country's leader.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on woke in the Pentagon is serving as a model for Germany’s far right.

Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls.

Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the ...

Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to ...

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...