But an ascendant figure on the right is trying to change that. Thirty-five-year-old Ulrich Siegmund has emerged as one of the ...

Most of the time, German parties come to power in states and nationally by forming coalitions. As long as the firewall holds, ...

The right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany profits significantly from public funding. Is democracy in Germany funding its own downfall? When the far-right Alternative for Germany party ...

Two co-operative banks in the East Westphalia region of Germany have terminated the accounts belonging to the local Alternative for Germany (AfD) chapter, the AfD district association in ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more.

Conceivably, nobody has ever expressed the view of right-wing and Neo-Nazi parties towards the democratic state better than Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, when acknowledging: “It ...

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office for the ...

Ten years ago, Germany symbolised Europe’s 'Willkommenskultur' (Welcome Culture). Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open borders to refugees in 2015 was framed as a moral and historical ...

New Bundestag Commissioner for Defense Henning Otte said that sending German troops to Ukraine would be a challenge for the Bundeswehr BERLIN, August 20. /TASS/. Almost all German political parties ...