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 ...

Germany saw a 40 percent jump in politically motivated crime last year, official data showed Tuesday, with the federal police ...

Friedrich Merz takes office as Germany’s new chancellor under a cloud of uncertainty. With internal dissent, a surging far ...

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

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

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

A series of closely fought elections, the war in Gaza and deepening political polarisation helped drive the number of ...

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

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

Germany is wrongly targeting Alternative for Germany via its intelligence service. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also ...

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