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Germany’s Bundestag debated the national budget on Wednesday and the far-right AfD party leapt at the chance to blame immigrants for feeding off the welfare state. The data, however, suggests that the ...

In practice, Alice Weidel has no chance of taking the chancellery as other parties refuse to work with the populist party.

In a general debate in the German Bundestag, the leader of the right-wing populist party AfD, Alice Weidel, sharply attacked Chancellor Friedrich Merz. In her speech, she also attacked the government ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) gestures during a debate about the 2025 budget at the ...