The political party that made gains in regional polls is labelled ‘right-wing extremist’ by Germany’s security services.

After voting closed on Sunday, the AfD was projected to become the strongest party in the eastern state of Thuringia, with 32.8% of the vote, and to come a close second in Saxony, with 30.6% of ...

Björn Höcke, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, waits for a session of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi phrases, at the ...

Germany’s AfD and its antisemitism threaten the safety of Jews and others. It’s the first far-right party to win since Nazis ...

Raids saw hundreds of police swoop on 20 locations linked to what prosecutors called a domestic terrorist group in eastern Germany and neighboring Poland.

Germany’s hard-Right AfD party is seeking to buy a “haunted” castle that was once a Nazi training academy and turn it into a “patriotic centre”. A senior member of the Thuringia branch ...

Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to ...

Germany’s hard-Right AfD party is seeking to buy a “haunted” castle that was once a Nazi training academy and turn it into a ...

Björn Höcke, the leader of the AfD in Thuringia, once described Berlin’s Holocaust memorial as a “monument of shame”.

Among the most consequential elections were those in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, three large European democracies ...

Germany's domestic security agency has labelled the AfD in both Saxony and Thuringia as a "confirmed" extremist organisation, giving intelligence services sweeping powers to spy on its activities.