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

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has closed in on the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, according to a new ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

Officials in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate announced they will ban members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

The AfD have since banned the 47-year-old Krah, their leading candidate in next month’s European elections, from making public appearances.

The humiliation of Merz and his shaky CDU-SPD government must have provided grim satisfaction to the AfD’s voters and leaders. Just four days earlier, on May 2, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency ...

The AfD is officially suspected of right-wing extremism by German authorities, and parts of it have been under government surveillance. All that appears to have changed.

The AfD party faction votes during the constituent session of the newly elected German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ...

AfD members invite the comparison, expressing extreme enthusiasm for Trump’s second administration, his policies thus far, and his vision for a more nation-minded global ecosystem.

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.

AfD files lawsuit against German spy agency's extremist classification The extremist classification allows the spy agency to step up monitoring of the AfD, for example, by recruiting informants ...