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

The chief of the German Air Force was in Israel this weekend to officially procure components for the Israeli-manufactured Arrow 3 air defense system. Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz visited ...

Former chairwoman of the right-wing extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Frauke Petry, announced in an interview with Die Welt news on Monday that she aims to found a new political party.

He does not hide "doubts about the possibility of bringing together two political agendas as different as that of the CDU and that of the German socialists," despite personal esteem for Merz and ...

Friedrich Merz was poised to be sworn in as chancellor but did not win enough votes in parliament, usually a symbolic step.

But last week, when Germany’s domestic intelligence agency the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) declared the AfD to be extremist, some of the most prominent political figures on the ...

I am bewildered at witnessing the political climate in our country ... the United States probably feel voiceless even though our system is setup with a process and a procedure.

Mainstream German political parties refuse to work with it, citing the so-called “firewall” they’ve upheld against cooperating with far-right parties since the end of the war. Last week ...

but the so-called “firewall,” which mainstream German political parties have against working with far-right parties, has held. In his post on Friday, Rubio called on Germany to undo the ...

However, it took him two rounds of voting on Tuesday to be confirmed as head of government, a first in German political history since World War II. As a result, Merz had to deal with a domestic ...