NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Correspondent Rob Schmitz discuss Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at to the Munich Security Conference.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday called on centre-left parties to take greater responsibility in countering right-wing extremism, warning against using the label too broadly, thereby ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is facing growing calls for a ban despite being Germany’s largest opposition group. - Sean Gallup/Getty Images The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

The youth organizations of Germany's leading political parties are growing more self-confident — and with tight majorities in the Bundestag, that could make them more influential. Noisy youths can be ...

Turmoil has engulfed the far-right Alternative for Germany party. Allegations of nepotism and weak leadership are circulating, and influential officials warn the party is jeopardizing its election ...

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office for the ...

In August and September 2025, posts online claimed that over the course of two weeks, several members of the far-right German political party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) died in the weeks ...

YOU DO NOT need a short back and sides, a razor-sharp side parting and half a tub of hair gel to join “Generation Germany”, the youth wing of the populist-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, ...

New Bundestag Commissioner for Defense Henning Otte said that sending German troops to Ukraine would be a challenge for the Bundeswehr BERLIN, August 20. /TASS/. Almost all German political parties ...

Here in Germany, leaders from around the world are prowling the halls of the Bayerischer Hof Hotel. They are here, like us, for the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering focused on defense, ...