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

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

The reclassification — AfD was previously designated a “suspected” extremist group — is likely to reignite debate over a ...

There's growing concern in Germany that society is becoming increasingly polarized. The question of how far right the AfD is ...

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

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

Marco Rubio called Germany's domestic spy agency's designation of the AfD party as extremist "tyranny in disguise." ...

(CN) — Alternative for Germany, a far-right anti-immigrant party that now tops opinion polls only two months after it scored ...

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

BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz's unprecedented first-round failure in the vote to make him German chancellor on Tuesday ...