AfD leader Alice Weidel says labeling her party extremist is undemocratic and undermines the rule of law. She accuses German ...

While resolutions and speeches were not short on radical rhetoric aimed at appealing to radicalised young people and workers, ...

R. Bruce Anderson writes that a large proportion of European nations came to democratic “norms” while he was alive. What are ...

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

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

Significantly, Merz began his speech by praising the pro-war and rearmament policies of his predecessor, Olaf Scholz (SPD).

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

The general state debt spiral should be a constant feature in daily headlines. Its prominence should force policymakers into ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

Margot Friedlaender, a Holocaust survivor who played an important role in Germany's remembrance culture ensuring the ...