When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded ...
Morphing into an anti-migration party after former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take in a large wave of refugees in 2015, the AfD entered the national parliament in 2017, ...
Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.
CDU and AfD voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Berlin’s left-wing ruling coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens. Both ...
For the first time in post-war Germany, a far-right party has received the second largest number of seats in the German parliament. Devastating? Yes. A surprise? Unfortunately, no. For years when I ...
The conservative CDU/CSU bloc emerged as the winner of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Germany, securing 28.6% of the vote, the dpa agency reported, citing preliminary official data released ...
The far-right group has learned to communicate in a country where traditional media no longer shape public opinion.
Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its best ever result.
The AfD’s popularity across the country has been driven by concerns ... in which he called for a “large-scale remigration project” to reverse the effects of former chancellor Angela Merkel opening up ...
In a historic shift in Germany’s political landscape, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the second largest party in the Bundestag, winning 20.8 percent of the vote in ...
The AfD reached a particularly large number of voters ... “open door” policies it became synonymous with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back to its more conservative ...
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called for European unity in the face of current political challenges, ...