The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

The AfD became the first party considered by many to be far-right to come out victorious in a state election in Germany since the World War II, when it won Brandenburg in September.

Wagenknecht is prepared to do whatever is necessary to realise her nationalist agenda. Die Linke/Left Party, her former party ...

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.

Leader of right-wing AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election.

While polling has shown the AfD as the second most popular party in Germany, the party is variously described in the media as a populist, right-wing, or far-right extremist outfit.

Germans with a favorable view of AfD are far less likely than nonsupporters to see the European Union favorably. Only 30% of AfD supporters have a positive view of the EU, compared with 72% of those ...

AfD was the first party to run afoul of those guardrails. Germany's domestic surveillance agency, tasked with enforcing those restrictions, said in 2021 that it would conduct continued ...

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, AfD, sing the national anthem as they attend an election campaign rally of the party for the upcoming state elections in Suhl, Germany ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream. Listen to this article · 2:29 min Learn more. Share full article.

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.