Germany's far-right AfD party has decided to wind down its radical Fluegel (Wing) faction, a spokesman said on Friday, after intelligence services placed the group under surveillance. Fluegel, which has about 7,000 members, was co-founded by notorious AfD lawmaker Bjoern Hoecke, who has sparked outrage ...
Germany designates radical wing of far-right AfD as 'extremist entity'
Germany will step up surveillance of a radical wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after the domestic intelligence agency designated it as an extremist entity that threatens democracy. Thursday's decision by the BfV intelligence agency to increase monitoring of "Der Fluegel"— The ...
The city of Erfurt, a quiet, chocolate-box town of around 200,000 inhabitants, is an unlikely epicenter for an earthquake that is shaking German politics to its post-war foundations. Yet last week, the city was the scene of a political scandal that toppled Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...
Friedrich Merz bids to succeed rival Merkel and steer Germany further right
Friedrich Merz, a longtime rival of Angela Merkel within the ruling CDU party, is hoping to replace her as German chancellor, local media reported Wednesday. Merz, who wants to shift the center-right party further to the right, is throwing his hat into the ring after ...
Merkel coalition catches a break as it stems advance of far-right populists
Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition caught a breather Sunday as its main parties stemmed a surge by Germany's far-right populists in two elections in the former communist east. The euroskeptic, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD),trailed the incumbent Social Democrats by about 4 percentage points in ...
Assassination of German pro-migrant politician raises 'alarm bell' over neo-Nazi threat
Germans have voiced shock at the suspected far-right murder of a pro-migrant official, fueling debate on Tuesday on whether the country has failed to take seriously a rising threat from neo-Nazis. Prosecutors on Monday said they suspected an extremist motive in the assassination-style shooting of ...
Far-right Alternative for Germany fails to get its first mayor but bags 45% of the vote
In a bellwether election Sunday ahead of three key regional polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party lost its bid to capture its first mayor's office in the country. In a runoff ballot in Goerlitz, Octavian Ursu, 51, a Romanian-born classical musician from Chancellor ...
Anti-immigrant AfD lawmakers walk out on Holocaust survivor's speech in Bavaria legislature
Lawmakers from the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) walked out of the Bavarian parliament on Wednesday after a Jewish community leader accused the party during a speech to commemorate the Holocaust of playing down Nazi crimes. "A party is represented here today that disparages those ...
German spy agency to launch anti-extremism probe into far-right opposition party AfD
Germany's domestic spy agency will investigate Alternative for Germany (AfD) to see whether the anti-immigrant party's policies breach constitutional safeguards against extremism, its chief said on Tuesday. The BfV has classified Germany's main opposition party as a "case to investigate," domestic intelligence chief Thomas Haldenwang ...
Around 25,000 people braved the rain in Munich on Sunday to protest the hard-line immigration stance of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies three months before they face a tough state election in Bavaria. The protest is another sign of the Christian Social Union's (CSU) waning ...
