A regional branch of German domestic intelligence in the eastern state of Brandenburg has suspended its designation of the local chapter of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a ...

Delegates sit in front of the party logo at the constituency meeting of the AfD Lower Saxony on December 20. Newsweek has looked at the odds of the AfD winning Germany's election. Delegates sit in ...

A man stands in front of the logo at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, 23 February, 2025 Crowds in St. Peter's Square cheered as white smoke signaled a new pope ‘The Masked Singer' Finale ...

Erfurt, Germany—Germany voted yesterday ... Flyswatters branded with the AfD logo were handed out to supporters, a wink to the messaging of the party. While the AfD have never explicitly ...

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Verfassungsschutz, claimed Friday that the AfD was trying to “undermine the free democratic basic order” — opening up ...

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Eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a radical right-wing party now holds over 20% of the seats in Germany’s highest democratic institution, the Bundestag. This grants the AfD ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has formally designated the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as extremist — a move likely to further isolate the group that has emerged as the ...

BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday designated the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as an “extremist endeavor,” a move that lowers hurdles for the spy ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...