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

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 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 ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz talks about his private exchanges with U.S. President Donald Trump, his own lack of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A coalition deal in Germany has paved the way for conservative leader Friedrich Merz to become the ... the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). CDU, along with its Bavarian sister ...