Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, according to The ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

The co-chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has again accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A man stands in front of the logo at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German ...

German intelligence labels AfD a confirmed right-wing extremist group. DPA. Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM UTC. 1 min read. A view of a stand with the words "Alternative for Germany" and the AfD logo.

Leader of right-wing AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) ...

The designation of the AfD as an extremist group may also boost talks to ban the party altogether, as some senior German party officials are suggesting and Musk warned about.

State-level AfD branches of AfD in the eastern states of Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt were previously designated extremist. Under the German constitution, adopted four years after the Fall of ...

The reclassification — AfD was previously designated a “suspected” extremist group — is likely to reignite debate over a political ban on the party.

Germany's domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the AfD as a right-wing extremist group, handing authorities greater powers to monitor the party and fuelling calls for it to be banned.

Germany’s domestic intelligence service today designated the AfD as a right-wing extremist group, handing authorities greater powers to monitor the party just months after it came second in ...