Alternative for Germany (political party)

Despite considerable fear that the populist wave would roll over the Dutch, French, and Germans in rapid succession, the core continental European populace locked out Geert Wilders, the “Dutch Trump”; the National Front's Marine Le Pen in France; and the racist-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) at ...

It has sparked the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the anti-Islam Pegida street movement, and the white pride Identitarian Movement. Merkel this week further angered the extreme right by reiterating that, although Germany is historically mainly shaped by its Christian-Judaic ...

Seehofer's statement had been welcomed by the newest party in the German parliament, the far-right Alternative for Germany. When the AfD posted a poll on Twitter this week asking if Islam belonged in Germany, more than 80% of respondents said yes, prompting the party to quickly delete the survey.

Incidents involving migrants, including the sex attacks during New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne, helped boost the country's far right in last year's election. The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party entered the federal parliament for the first time, while Mrs Merkel's CDU party had its worst ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party announced Thursday that a high-profile regional leader will resign from his post at the end of March. Andre Poggenburg is the head of the party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. He prompted an outcry in mid-February after describing people of Turkish ...

... term in office as Chancellor. Instead, voters revolted against the status quo. Both CDU and the SPD barely maintained their status as Germany's top parties, suffering record losses and losing millions of votes to the far-right nationalist party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), which took nearly 13% of the vote.

Late last year, the nativist, Islamophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered the Bundestag for the first time after securing 12.6 percent of the vote in Germany's federal elections. And since then, it has shot up to 15 percent in the polls. CDU conservatives say that their party has to offer AfD voters -- some ...

The friendly faces of the AfD? Germany's new parliamentary representatives. After the 2017 election, the far-right populist party enters the Bundestag for the first time. But who exactly are some of the Alternative for Germany's representatives — and what have they said and done? (25.09.2017) ...

Women at a march organised by the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in Berlin, Germany, February 17, 2018. (Reuters). The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has become a significant player in the country's parliament. The AFD ran in last year's elections on a nationalist anti-immigration, ...

The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has sued former party chief Frauke Petry for trademark infringement. Petry left the AfD to ... The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a lawsuit against ex-party chief Frauke Petry in a branding dispute, the Bild newspaper reported. "The AfD sued me in ...

In a special discussion in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, MPs underscored the country's commitment to remembering the Holocaust and the other crimes of Germany's Nazi past. The session was called by the Greens after increasing agitation from within the far-right populist Alternative for Germany ...

Unemployed in east Germany, male and with a low education level: these are the traits commonly attributed to Alternative for Germany voters. Yet after the populist right-wing party was catapulted to the third most popular in September elections, garnering 12.6 percent of the vote, researchers sought a more ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is taking matters into its own hands and is launching its own online newsroom because it believes its not getting enough press or is being presented it in the way it would like. Speaking to Focus magazine (link in German), AfD leader Alice Weidel said its TV newsroom, ...

Germany's populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will on Saturday announce plans to set up a television studio in its Berlin offices and employ up 20 new communications staff. According to advanced excerpts of a report slated to be published in full in Saturday's edition of German news magazine ...

But two years ago, after the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Germany, Mr. Reil switched to the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD. Competing in state legislative elections last May, the party won 20 percent of the vote in his home district with his name on its list — and the Social ...

POTSDAM, Germany -- Arthur Wagner has been many things in life: a child in the Soviet Union, a migrant in Germany, a devout Christian, an alcoholic, a truck driver and a committed member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party. Earlier this month, Wagner surprised his party colleagues by ...