In Germany, lawmakers have approved changes to the constitution to allow for unprecedented spending on defense. The historic vote brings an end to decades of austerity.

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

This included economics professors Bernd Lucke and Joachim Starbatty, and conservative journalists Konrad Adam and Alexander Gauland. It began as a single-issue, anti-Euro party, advocating ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) looks set to become the second largest party in the German parliament following elections on February 23. Polls& ...

The AfD’s former leader, Alexander Gauland, sparked outrage in 2018 by downplaying the Nazi era, calling it “mere bird shit” in Germany’s thousand-year history. Another former member of the state ...

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Among statements that have raised alarm was one by Alexander Gauland, the party’s co-founder and a current member of parliament, who previously dismissed Hitler’s dictatorship as a “speck of ...