AfD enters Germany's parliament for the first time Party was founded on an economic manifesto It is now represented in 13 out of Germany's 16 state parliaments AfD is particularly popular in former ...

Senior Correspondent While fighting for a seat in the German parliament over the last few months, Sergej Tschernow, a candidate for the right-wing Alternative for Germany, or AfD, knew that he could ...

Germany’s 709 members of parliament are gathering Tuesday for the first time since federal elections exactly one month ago. All eyes will be on the 92 lawmakers representing Alternative for Germany ...

Germany's anti-euro, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party appeared to take a lurch further to the right at the weekend. Party members elected a hardline nationalist as co-leader of the ...

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Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review, and a former CNN producer and correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are her own ...

After the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party surged to third place in Germany's election on Sunday, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Berlin to voice their dismay. The ...

AfD supporters celebrate as exit polls are announced. EPA/Thorsten Wagner The Alternative for Germany (AfD), the right wing upstart of German politics, will enter the national parliament for the first ...

Supporters of the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party shout slogans during a September campaign rally for German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Torgau, Germany. (Reuters) For the first time ...

For all its orderly, prosperous modernity, Germany remains shadowed by memories of World War II and the horrors of Nazism. Now, for the first time in the country’s postwar history, a far-right party — ...

AfD national chairwoman Alice Weidel speaks at her party's national convention in Riesa, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP) HENNIGSDORF, Germany (CN) — In the eyes of ...

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