Shortly before Christmas, members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) received an invitation to an elite global gathering.

Most of the time, German parties come to power in states and nationally by forming coalitions. As long as the firewall holds, ...

Moves to distance party from extremist figures reveal tensions between electoral ambition and ideological hardliners ...

BERLIN — In an address to commemorate Kristallnacht — the 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier last month offered a solution for the resurgence of right-wing ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

(Bloomberg) -- When Elon Musk posted on X in 2024 that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the far right since it was ...

Germany can ban extremist political parties. Should it? Today, a deep dive into Germany’s heated debate over whether to ban the country’s far-right party. Germany can ban extremist political parties.

BERLIN — Centrist parties struggled in Germany's election on Sunday, with former Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) recording its worst-ever result as many voters shifted to the ...

Journalists in Germany are facing growing threats as political polarisation, disinformation and hostility toward the media ...

It is a familiar conundrum by now. Yet in the opening weeks of 2026 — as President Trump kidnapped a foreign leader, threatened to invade an ally and looked on as federal agents detained and killed ...