Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to refugees and the construction of a police state.

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi ...

Germany has classified the AfD as a confirmed extremist party, triggering legal reviews, political fallout, and international ...

The party’s rise has created one political crisis. Any attempt to ban it would create another.