The party’s rise has created one political crisis. Any attempt to ban it would create another.

Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi ...

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

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

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...

Germany is wrongly targeting Alternative for Germany via its intelligence service. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also ...

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

In Germany, government has the power to ban extremist political parties. Should it use that power to outlaw the ...

The AfD has issued threats of a "war against the government," complains of a "knife jihad" on German streets and demands that millions be "remigrated." DER SPIEGEL has looked inside the 1,108-page ...

Germany's intelligence service Thursday paused its extremist designation of the far-right AfD party pending a court decision ...

The AfD and its supporters are celebrating the claim that the domestic intelligence service has "withdrawn" its ...