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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or BfV, on Friday classified the country’s popular Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as ...

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 ...

BERLIN — The German domestic intelligence ... Protection of the Constitution described the party, known as AfD, as a threat to the country’s democratic order, saying it “disregards human ...