When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded ...
Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...
Morphing into an anti-migration party after former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take in a large wave of refugees in 2015, the AfD entered the national parliament in 2017, ...
For the first time in post-war Germany, a far-right party has received the second largest number of seats in the German parliament. Devastating? Yes. A surprise? Unfortunately, no. For years when I ...
According to media reports, the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, suspected as early as 2020 that the Covid-19 ...
Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner because in her heart she is not really a conservative. Merkel maneuvered behind the scenes to peel off some CDU lawmakers ...
The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion.
Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its best ever result.
The AfD’s popularity across the country has been driven by concerns ... in which he called for a “large-scale remigration project” to reverse the effects of former chancellor Angela Merkel opening up ...
Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.
The AfD reached a particularly large number of voters ... “open door” policies it became synonymous with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back to its more conservative ...
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 in ...