Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will file a complaint to the constitutional court next week over plans to raise ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

The centre-right and centre-left parties seeking to hammer out a coalition deal following last month's parliamentary elections in Germany are merely paving the way for the far right, maverick populist ...

the color of the far-right Alternative for Germany. Except for Berlin, the leftist capital. Represented by Alice Weidel, a 46-year old gay woman married to a woman born in Sri Lanka, AfD has doubled ...

Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) has proposed talks with French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on European defence ...

Germany's AfD party plans to file a constitutional complaint against the proposed debt increase by potential next chancellor ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with whom he is trying ...

In the smallest town in Germany, just one out of 228 eligible voters cast their ballot for Alternative for Germany even as ...

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In a historic shift in Germany’s political landscape, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the second largest party in the Bundestag, winning 20.8 percent of the vote ...

While the center-right Christian Democrats secured victory, it was the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that delivered the biggest shock, capturing around 20% of the vote — double ...