German interior minister orders raids amid debate over whether to outlaw far-right party Alternative for Germany ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

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

In his maiden speech as chancellor to Germany's Bundestag, Merz tried to position himself as a unifying centrist figure.

In Germany and the U.K., parties that have held sway for decades are being overtaken by the far right.

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

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

The ‘Reich citizen’ movement, or ‘Reichsbürger,’ rejects the legitimacy of the modern German state, clinging to the belief ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday said he was "very sceptical" about mounting calls to ban the far-right ...

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 ...