Alice Weidel

Air raid sirens blared across Kyiv, urging residents to shelter soon after Friedrich Merz arrived under tight security, with warnings of approaching Russian attack drones

Leaders from Merz’s Christian Democratic Union publicly closed ranks around the chancellor and his reform drive on Monday, despite growing internal concern that his leadership is rapidly driving their party toward demise

Leaders from Merz’s Christian Democratic Union publicly closed ranks around the chancellor and his reform drive on Monday, despite growing internal concern that his leadership is rapidly driving their party toward demise

Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure after his CDU crashed to 4.9% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, missing the threshold for state parliament in its worst regional result since 1949

Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) collapsed to 5.5 percent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and fell to second place with 20 percent in Berlin

Others have taken note, and it might well serve as a new campaigning template for far-right populists across Europe — at least for those able to flash a credible smile

If it finds a way to power it will be the first far-right party to govern a German state since the Nazi era

Weidel’s remarks come days after the far-right AfD scored its strongest-ever state-election result in Saxony-Anhalt, winning about 43.8–44% of the vote but falling short of an overall majority and with no certainty it can form a state government

By securing 43.8 per cent of the vote in the September 6 election in Saxony-Anhalt — more than double its 2021 result — the AfD sent shock waves and piled further pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has set its sights on federal power after its record state election victory, a result that has deepened unease among the country’s immigrant communities, including its large Turkish population

Merz seemed to have no clear plan for saving himself and his party as his government confronted its biggest political crisis yet, beyond ambiguous promises to become a better, more empathetic politician 16 months into his chancellorship

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record 44% in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, leaving a small party with seats that could determine whether it can lead the nation's first far-right state government since World War II

While other groups had similarly been invited to use pool exclusively without incident, the idea of Black children enjoying a private afternoon at a public pool proved to be controversial among some

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The AfD has strengthened its hardline leadership despite ongoing scrutiny from Germany's domestic intelligence agencies

Protesters from ‌unions, civil society groups and left-wing parties gathered as large numbers of police, including reinforcements from across Germany, were deployed ahead of the AfD’s two-day annual conference

Mehdi Hasan challenges Maximilian Krah, member of parliament for the AfD, on “Remigration”, his views on Muslims, and whether the party should be considered extremist

At least not in 1930s Germany, where the “horseshoe theory” was coined to explain how extreme right- and left-wingers often have more in common with each other than with the political centre

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen hailed Hungary’s Viktor Orbán for blocking a €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine

The SPD’s defeat at the hands of its coalition partner could plunge the party deeper into crisis nationally and destabilize the government in Berlin as the left-wing party seeks to retrench and appeal to what’s left of its socialist base

In early March, the Hungarian authorities arrested seven Ukrainian bank workers who were transporting millions of US dollars worth of cash and gold through Hungary to Ukraine

Merz rules out cooperation with far-right AfD

A German court has ordered authorities to stop calling Alternative for Germany (AfD) far-right extremist until a final ruling on the designation can be handed down

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen during her visit to the island on Friday

President Donald Trump’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21 was intended to project confidence and command on the world stage

A heated moment unfolded in the European Parliament as Danish MEP Anders Vistisen launched a blunt verbal attack on U.S. President Donald Trump during a debate on Greenland in Strasbourg

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Hungary’s campaign stepped up a gear this week, with populist nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán facing the toughest challenge yet to his 15-year grip on power

The rise of nationalist parties across the continent, four years of war in Ukraine with no tangible hope of a ceasefire, and the difficulties the 27 member states have faced in responding to Donald Trump's repeated attacks have led to a sense of disbelief in Germany regarding the European Union's (EU) ability to be more than just an economic area

That caused the coalition, which had only a two-vote surplus, to lose its majority in the state parliament