What Does the AfD Stand For?
German journalists refuse to interview the party’s Beatrix von Storch, but I went to see her in Berlin.
Germany to spend big on defence, infrastructure: Why this fiscal bazooka is significant
Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...
Alice Weidel doesn’t fit the profile of a far-right politician. The German AfD is willing to look past it.
Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...
Germany approves huge spending boost for defence, infrastructure
US President Donald Trump’s outreach to Russia and hostility towards Ukraine have shaken Europe. Read more at ...
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Legal Showdown: Germany's Borrowing Plan Stirs Parliamentary Storm
Lawmakers challenge Germany's plan for increased state borrowing, with complaints filed to the constitutional court by ...
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Germany’s political upheaval and the transatlantic alliance’s uncertain future
Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...
PHOTO COLLECTION: Germany Politics
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Germany's youth vote is increasingly polarized. Why?
And while young German women voted in droves for the far left, more than a quarter of Young German men voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AFD, party, a party whose members rail ...
Germany's Bundestag votes in favor of reforming 'debt brake'
The multibillion-euro package loosens borrowing limits and allows new investments in defense, infrastructure and climate. The ...