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

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

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

Germany's domestic intelligence agency was on Friday waiting for judges to decide if they could go ahead with their plan to ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says it will await a court ruling before moving forward with plans to classify the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party as a “right-wing extremist” mov ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has halted its public labeling of the far-right Alternative for Germany ... backlash from the AfD and vocal opposition from the Trump administration.

As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country's cultural elite are now also taking on Putin ...

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

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 ...

Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, co-leaders of the far-right Alternative for ... However, there is also opposition to Germany’s current right-wing shift. In the spring of 2024, nationwide ...

In a social media post last week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Germany to undo the classification, saying the move to give new powers to the spy agency to watch the opposition ...