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Is the AfD Too Extreme for Democracy?
Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi-curious.
Musk's interest in European politics has alarmed establishment leaders there, who [worried]( ...
The designation opens up the agency’s ability to surveil the populist anti-immigration party more thoroughly, among other legal consequences. Leader of right-wing AfD Alice Weidel waves a German ...
Photo: picture alliance/dpa/MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk | MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Years after being ousted from the AfD, former party leader Frauke Petry intends to launch a new political ...
The Trump administration has emerged as a staunch defender of Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, a party with Nazi echoes ...
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 ...
A powerful party leader in the east, Björn Höcke, was fined twice last year by German courts for using the Nazi-era slogan “Everything for Germany” at AfD events and had argued that he was ...
Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has told Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky that Berlin will help Kyiv produce long-range ...
AfD leader Alice Weidel says labeling her party extremist is undemocratic and undermines the rule of law. She accuses German intelligence of overreach and sees no cause for self-criticism.
AfD’s new position may also shutter talks of outright banning the party, a controversial proposal that split mainstream lawmakers. The poll came the same day CDU leader Friedrich Merz announced ...