Friedrich Merz's failure in the initial chancellor vote boosted the far-right AfD, which capitalizes on political instability. Merz's coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) appears fragile, ...

Years after being ousted from the AfD, former party leader Frauke Petry intends to launch a new political party in Germany.

AfD’s success takes its source from those many ... Under Scholz and Angela Merkel before him, German policy here effectively began and ended with doing everything possible to protect German ...

Rubio mocked for calling German policy ‘tyranny in disguise’ and backing extremist AfD party - Germany’s domestic ...

The German counterintelligence has classified the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist ...

AfD has long faced criticism for Russia-friendly positions, and opposes Germany’s stance on the war in Ukraine. Berlin is Ukraine’s second-biggest weapons supplier after the United States.

BERLIN - Germany's domestic spy agency BfV will temporarily refrain from classifying the Alternative for Germany party as an extremist organization, pending litigation by the AfD, a court in the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -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 ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses delegates during a party congress on January 11th, 2025 in Riesa, eastern Germany. Photo: Jens ...