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

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to ...

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

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in ...

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

The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee called on Wednesday for American spy agencies to "pause" ...

The nationalist Alternative for Germany is shunned by other parties domestically. But elsewhere in Europe far-right parties are on the rise and some have made it into in government.

Several lawmakers from across the political spectrum have been working to get enough support for a ban of the AfD party. The domestic intelligence agency's move to classify the AfD as extremist may ...

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

Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country's federal office ...

The designation is certain to inflame debates over whether the party should be banned, though some polls show it to be the ...