AfD Co-Chairwoman Alice Weidel celebrated the development in a post on X. “For the first time in the AfD’s short history, we are the strongest party in Germany.

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the ...

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 ...

At the end of last week, Germany officially labeled the far-right Alternative für Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed right-wing extremist group. This unprecedented decision was announced by 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 ...

The Trump administration has emerged as a staunch defender of Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, a party with Nazi echoes that has risen in popularity.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned a decision Friday by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to classify the political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a right-wing extremist ...

In response, the AfD lashed out at the country’s domestic intelligence agency. In a written statement, party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla called the decision “a serious blow to German ...

One AfD leader, Stephan Brandner, told the German news agency D.P.A., “This decision by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is complete nonsense in terms of substance, ...

The AfD could, Mr. Hillje suggested, introduce legislation copied from the Christian Democrats’ playbook, rendering it toxic. Or they could peel off members from either party with amendments to ...

EUROPE AFFAIRS: The political climate in Germany is shifting as the AfD rises in power, raising concerns about the future of Holocaust memory and the country’s commitment to Shoah remembrance.

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...