EL PAÍS English8d
How the historical memory of Nazism (partly) explains the success of the far right in Germany and Austria
The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for ...
The Financial Times12d
The political rise of the anti-vax movement
Axel Salheiser, a sociologist with the Research Institute for Social Cohesion in Jena, Germany and an expert ... the party’s leader in Thuringia, has likened Covid jabs to the Nazis ...
Devdiscourse12d
German Court Convicts Afghan Duo for Planned Attack on Swedish Parliament
A German court sentenced two Afghan men to several years in prison for planning an attack on Sweden's parliament and killing ...
A German court sentences 2 Afghans to prison for plotting to attack the Swedish parliament
A German court has sentenced two Afghan men to several years in prison for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament and ...
The New York Times15d
The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...
The New York Times15d
How a Demographic ‘Doom Loop’ Helped Germany’s Far Right
Understanding the Alternative for Germany’s success in Sunday’s elections. By Amanda Taub The Alternative for Germany party came in second in federal elections on Sunday, doubling its vote ...
France 2415d
How Germany’s enduring East-West divide is pushing voters to the fringes
“The long-term consequences of how unification was managed after 1990 is having an effect, and it's widely felt in eastern Germany until today. If you look at the result of the AfD in Thuringia ...
Indiatimes15d
Conservative party wins Germany: 10 key facts about the election that shifted the nation to right
Projections indicate that CDU won the highest number of votes, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw a major surge. (AP photo) ...
Fox News15d
Germany’s new conservative leader looks to ‘achieve independence’ from US
Germany’s chancellor-elect, Friedrich Merz, leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party, said his "absolute priority" upon taking up the top job will be to secure Europe so that ...
Foreign Policy15d
The AfD Is Now Germany’s Mainstream
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CNN15d
Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...
Wall Street Journal16d
The Race to Save Germany
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Jillian Melchior, and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Joel Marklund/Zuma Press/Damian Dovarganes/AP/Omar Ashtawy Apaimages ...