This idea challenges the deeply held and decades-long German memory culture that insists people must never forget the Nazis’ ...
No election result is monocausal, and there are clearly many factors that have converged to make the AfD Germany’s most ...
Its gains threaten to deepen Europe’s divisions over Ukraine and Russia.

The firewall

Germany’s political establishment has spent years treating Alternative für Deutschland as a problem that could be contained ...
The leader of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, a party widely regarded as far-right, criticized the government's ...
A leader of Alternative for Germany taunted Chancellor Friedrich Merz in parliament Wednesday after it thrashed his party in ...
AfD's 44% win in eastern Germany raises concerns over EU support for Ukraine, highlighting pro-Russia influences in European ...
Saxony-Anhalt is a mid-sized state in Eastern Germany that has not really commanded much international attention since ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz canceled a planned phone call with President Donald Trump on Sept. 9 after the U.S.
The AfD’s success in Saxony-Anhalt confronts German Catholics with difficult questions about political judgement, episcopal authority and the coherence of Catholic social teaching ...
The Alternative for Germany party’s victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election is an ominous coup for the far right.