Last year in Bautzen and Leipzig in eastern Germany, hundreds of far-right protesters tried to disrupt annual LGBTQ+ marches. Police stopped 28 men, half of them minors, who planned to attack last ...

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 ...

Researchers say a far-right social media campaign — that painted a respected law professor as extremist — caused the ...

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany say they might quit voting if the party is outlawed. Some opponents are against ...

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has adopted a code of conduct for its members, without changing its positions on ...

Earlier this month, Politico leaked an internal strategy document from Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) can once again be described as a confirmed far-right extremist party in the eastern state of Brandenburg following the dismissal of an urgent application by ...

The controversy surrounding the election of a judge to the Federal Constitutional Court shows how the far-right AfD is being ...

Four years later, in 1956, the far-left Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was also banned. Repeated attempts – in 2003, 2016 and 2021 – to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany ...

The vote signaled a shift many saw as legitimizing the far right’s influence on German politics. What the AfD does not share with either of its political bedmates is a religious wing.

In Germany and France, mainstream political parties still cooperate to box out far-right parties, preventing them from gaining power despite their growing popularity.