As AfD grows in popularity, it gets potentially more dangerous — but also harder to ban. This could become a test for ...

Germany's new justice minister came out in favour of considering legal action to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

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

US President Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio accused the German state of “tyranny in disguise”, further ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not end the groundswell of support for it, noting it was key instead to fight ...

Friedrich Merz, right, talks to outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the ... The motion was narrowly approved thanks to votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party. That prompted his ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has criticized the behaviour of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) during President ...

Friedrich Merz's unprecedented first-round failure in the vote to make him German chancellor on Tuesday gave a boost to the ...

AfD's co-leader Alice Weidel said her party is "ready for the responsibility of government" after Friedrich Merz initially fell six votes short of being named chancellor—Germany's leader—in a ...

Germany's spy agency said AfD is a "proven right-wing extremist endeavor" and poses a threat to the democratic order, which the party denies. Designated Chancellor Friedrich Merz reacts to the ...

The AfD won 20.8 percent of the vote in February ... Patrick Junker for The New York Times German businesses had been counting on Friedrich Merz and his new coalition with the Social Democrats ...