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

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

Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to ...

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

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

In Germany, there are calls to establish an investigative committee in the Bundestag to address the Nord Stream 2 pipeline ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

The designation is certain to inflame debates over whether the party should be banned, though some polls show it to be the ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency was on Friday waiting for judges to decide if they could go ahead with their plan to ...

AfD national chairwoman Alice Weidel speaks at her party's national convention in Riesa, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP) (CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right ...

“but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.” The post prompted a response from Germany’s foreign ministry, which said the decision was ...

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