Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right ...

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

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

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

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

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the ...

Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) is set to meet on Friday to appoint its new leadership, months after its catastrophic ...

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

cited court decisions in two German regions in recent years that detailed party efforts to undermine a free and democratic order. The party “aims to exclude certain population groups from equal ...

Friedrich Merz won the vote to become the next German chancellor on Tuesday after a second vote in parliament, hours after an ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his government's new migration policy on Saturday, saying it remains in line with ...