The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

The AfD has issued threats of a "war against the government," complains of a "knife jihad" on German streets and demands that millions be "remigrated." DER SPIEGEL has looked inside the 1,108-page ...

Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country's federal office ...

The reclassification — AfD was previously designated a “suspected” extremist group — is likely to reignite debate over a ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

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

Germany's foreign office says history shows that right-wing extremism "needs to be stopped", after criticism from the White ...

Alternative für Deutschland was designated an "extremist" group by Germany's domestic intelligence agency after becoming the country's most popular party.

The agency cited a "xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic" rhetoric among the reasons for the designation. The label gives ...

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