The nationalist Alternative for Germany is shunned by other parties domestically. But elsewhere in Europe far-right parties are on the rise and some have made it into in government.

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Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, ...

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

Spending 5% of GDP on defense would mean over $220 billion dollars a year for Germany. New Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

The group, the “Kingdom of Germany,” is the largest organizing group of the Reichsbürger, or “citizens of the Reich” movement ...