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

Germany's domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, handing authorities greater powers to monitor it and fuelling calls for it to be banned.The ...

The AfD won a record number of seats in the national election in February, coming in second behind Merz's conservatives, which in theory entitled it to chair several key parliamentary committees.

The poll put the AfD on 26% and the Christian democratic CDU/CSU on 25%. This is just one opinion poll, but since February’s early federal election, the direction of travel has been clear. Governments ...