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German interior minister orders raids amid debate over whether to outlaw far-right party Alternative for Germany ...
The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...
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 ...
In his maiden speech as chancellor to Germany's Bundestag, Merz tried to position himself as a unifying centrist figure.
Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...
In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about EU scrutiny on Italy’s rule of law amid a ministerial no-show, the Warsaw-Bucharest axis sparking backlash days before the vote, and so much more.
The question of how far right the AfD is ... initiated the project "Germany Speaks" before the 2021 general election, bringing people with completely opposing political views into conversation.
The new German chancellor is to hold talks with the Greek premier in Berlin. Meanwhile, Germany has banned the far-right anti ...
The ‘Reich citizen’ movement, or ‘Reichsbürger,’ rejects the legitimacy of the modern German state, clinging to the belief that the historical German Reich persists. This denial extends to the country ...
The government is a centrist parliamentary coalition. To undo its predecessor’s democratic backsliding, it needs the ...
TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...