Germany's democracy is in crisis - opinion According to official data, nearly 5,400 attacks against public and elected officials were carried out in Germany in 2023.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Thomas Haldenwang runs Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution. His mission is to fight the enemies of German democracy — from far-right coup plotters to Russian hackers.

German Democracy Is in Peril. The mainstream parties aim to ban AfD for the “crime” of believing that Germans exist and deserve a homeland. Dieter Stein . May 7, 2025 12:03 AM.

Germany, through political, cultural, artistic, and private foundations, turned itself into the world’s “gatekeeper of democracy,” and by its self-attributed role, it preached democracy to ...

The Cold War incubated German democracy, too. Democracy gained West Germany entry into NATO in 1955; democracy drew a sharp distinction between the freedom of western Germany and the police state ...

In December, the German government—a coalition led by Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats—lost a no-confidence vote. Elections will be held next month. Scholz came to power after the sixteen-year ...

The first democracy on German soil did not survive the onslaught of the Nazis. If America is to survive the attacks of Trump and his supporters, its citizens would do well to look to the fate of ...

In Germany, posting hate speech online can bring police to your door. ... Prosecutors argue they are protecting democracy and discourse by introducing a touch of German order to the unruly internet.

T he short-lived Weimar Republic—which spanned the years after Germany’s defeat in World War I until 1933, when Hitler came to power—has become a paradigmatic example of democratic collapse ...