NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Correspondent Rob Schmitz discuss Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at to the Munich Security Conference.

Turmoil has engulfed the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Allegations of nepotism and weak leadership are circulating, and influential officials warn the party is jeopardizing its ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or BfV, on Friday classified the country’s popular Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as "extremist." ...

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 ...

Economically troubled Germany just held elections and will soon have a new government. The conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) is likely to create a coalition with ...

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.

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

As Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) continue to hold exploratory talks about forming a coalition government, the parties were expected to hold scaled-back traditional political ...

In December, when the German government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost the confidence of the Bundestag, it sparked a general election. It also provoked the fear of a deepening international crisis ...

The parties that have dominated European politics for decades are collapsing. Does the same fate await the Democrats and the ...

The announcement on Friday, May 2, by the Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV), Germany's domestic intelligence agency, means that the entire Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is considered ...