But an ascendant figure on the right is trying to change that. Thirty-five-year-old Ulrich Siegmund has emerged as one of the ...

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is no longer an insurgent force shouting from the German political margins. It is knocking ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

Moves to distance party from extremist figures reveal tensions between electoral ambition and ideological hardliners ...

Two co-operative banks in the East Westphalia region of Germany have terminated the accounts belonging to the local Alternative for Germany (AfD) chapter, the AfD district association in ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — The rise of the far right has hit German politics like an earthquake — especially in the former Communist East Germany and among voters under 60. But in the gritty Connewitz ...

Germany can ban extremist political parties. Should it? Today, a deep dive into Germany’s heated debate over whether to ban the country’s far-right party. Germany can ban extremist political parties.

“The stalemate we see in Germany today is in some respects a microcosm of the bigger debate across Europe on whether to hunker down and protect the traditional welfare state and traditional ...