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

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.

Democracies can fail. Current events have raised the question of how stable or fragile democratic structures are, and whether ...

Narrative: Germany’s democratic freedom protections are not unconditional. Those asserting this frame consider that under the basis of Germany’s commonly referred to in English as militant/defensive ...

Germany's biggest opposition political party, the nationalist and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, ... How the German constitution deals with 'threats to democracy' : ...

Is Germany protecting its democracy or suppressing free speech? by Eliot Wilson, opinion contributor - 05/15/25 11:30 AM ET. by Eliot Wilson, opinion contributor - 05/15/25 11:30 AM ET.

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the ...

Meanwhile, AfD leaders and their supporters argue that the new extremist designation is the real attack on democracy. The Bfv, the German initials for the domestic spy agency, reportedly submitted a 1 ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called on Europe to stand up to President Trump on tariffs and said Vice ...

Rubio’s State Department, meanwhile, published a Substack essay on May 27 that accused German leaders of “trampling democracy, and Western heritage along with it, ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany’s modern history, he lost the parliament’s initial vote and ...