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

The AfD has issued threats of a "war against the government," complains of a "knife jihad" on German streets and demands that millions be "remigrated." DER SPIEGEL has looked inside the 1,108-page ...

The group, the “Kingdom of Germany,” is the largest organizing group of the Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich” movement, which believes that the country’s Nazi-era 1937 borders still exist.

I have come to talk to you about Europe. ‘Again,’ some might exclaim.” These were the words with which French President ...

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

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

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

The German government has banned the largest “Reich citizen” group, an extremist far-right organization that calls itself the ...

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

Elites always rule, and any system has assumptions that are not open to debate. While the United States has more freedom than ...

A top member of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative party has expressed strong reservations about calls to ban ...