Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

Who are the AfD? Germany’s new far-right opposition and the subject of Elon Musk’s infatuation - The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s el ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

After coming second in Germany's recent election, the far-right AfD party now holds even more parliaments seats than before. Constitutional experts are worried.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a meeting marred by the absence or curtailed attendance of key members and ...

The AfD was founded in 2013 by disaffected CDU members. This included economics professors Bernd Lucke and Joachim Starbatty, and conservative journalists Konrad Adam and Alexander Gauland. It began ...

Weidel has helmed the AfD since 2017, when she became co-chair alongside Alexander Gauland. Seen as another member of the extremist white nationalist wing of the party, Gauland, who was born in ...

Why does the AfD dismay so many Germans ... In 2018, the party leader at the time, Alexander Gauland, dismissed “Hitler and the Nazis” as “just a speck of bird shit in over 1,000 years ...

The German comedian warned on Thursday that the world "should be worried" as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) appears on its way to achieving a record result in Sunday's election.

The AfD has little chance of joining the government ... Honorary chairman Alexander Gauland has described the Nazis' genocide of Europe's Jews as a lone stain that could not disfigure the glorious ...

at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of Thuringia state elections in August 2024 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Alexander Gauland, an AfD co-founder and former leader, has claimed that Germans should ...