The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

The number of reprimands issued in the Bundestag reached its highest postwar level during the last parliament. Two-thirds of ...

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 ...

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, ...

Germany’s recent elections marked a turning point in the country’s political landscape. While the center-right CDU has ...

Germany's right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday's German election, with reports indicating one-in-five voters supported the ...

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 (lower house of parliament ...

A far-right group that for some has evoked Germany’s Nazi past may be on the verge of becoming the strongest party for the first time in a state election. “The No. 1 issue is, of course, the ...

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The Alternative for Germany, known by the German initials AfD, a nationalist party that routinely blames immigrants for many of Germany’s problems, has been around for 11 years.