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

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

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

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on woke in the Pentagon is serving as a model for Germany’s far right.

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

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

The motion was narrowly approved thanks to votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party. That prompted his opponents to accuse Merz of breaking a taboo in allegedly working with the ...

Even before Merz took office, conservative ratings have been falling as those of the AfD have risen. The AfD's strength in eastern Germany has already pushed several states there to the brink of ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in ...

The looming question now is whether Merz is the right man to forestall the disaster of an AfD victory in Germany’s next elections, set for 2029. His sense of urgency in preparation for the ...

BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich ... to climb in recent months, with the AfD even topping some opinion polls, ahead of Merz's conservatives. The domestic spy agency's ...