NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Correspondent Rob Schmitz discuss Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at to the Munich Security Conference.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday called on centre-left parties to take greater responsibility in countering right-wing extremism, warning against using the label too broadly, thereby ...

Turmoil has engulfed the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Allegations of nepotism and weak leadership are ...

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is no longer an insurgent force shouting from the German political margins. It is knocking on the door of local government, looking poised to win two of this year’s ...

The far-right AfD has been responsible for over half of administrative parliamentary fines issued to political parties since 2017, according to official figures. The party has blamed "inexperience" in ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — The rise of the far right has hit German politics like an earthquake — especially in the former Communist East Germany and among voters under 60. But in the gritty Connewitz ...

(CNN) — The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center ...

Germany can ban extremist political parties. Should it? Today, a deep dive into Germany’s heated debate over whether to ban the country’s far-right party. Germany can ban extremist political parties.

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office for the ...