Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...

In his maiden speech as chancellor to Germany's Bundestag, Merz tried to position himself as a unifying centrist figure.

The German intelligence service has classified the Alternative for Germany (AFD) party as a “right-wing extremist” group.

A high-ranking Federal Office has classified AfD, the leading opposition party, as an “undoubtedly” right-wing extremist ...

In a joint statement on Friday, they said: "The AfD is now being publicly discredited and criminalised as an opposition ... far right or extremist. Local branches of the party in the east German ...

Germany’s most important and powerful ally for many decades — the US — has only further weakened conservative leader ...

05/13/2025 May 13, 2025 Germany bans "Kingdom of Germany" group, a prominent faction of the far-right Reich Citizens movement. Police raided properties of key members, including of its founder ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has designated the far-right Alternative for Germany ... The party, which is Germany's main parliamentary opposition, has vowed to challenge the decision ...

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 intelligence service officially classifies the AfD as a right-wing extremist party, enabling nationwide ...