
UPDATED: AfD Could Secure More Than One in Three Votes in Brandenburg
Despite various campaigns against the German national conservatives, the party has opened up a 15 percentage-point lead on its rivals.

Despite various campaigns against the German national conservatives, the party has opened up a 15 percentage-point lead on its rivals.

The right-wing party has more support than the state’s governing coalition parties combined.

Charges over an attack on an AfD politician have renewed concerns about political violence in Germany.

Viktor Orbán, Geert Wilders and Alice Weidel took part in a major rally, organised by the Freedom Party of Austria, in a show of strength that reinforced the image of unity within Europe’s patriotic bloc.

It was not compromise but the avoidance—even suppression—of critical debate that lay at the heart of the technocratic governing style for which Merkel and her successors stand.

In Germany, Antifa groups are targeting AfD politicians and anyone suspected of affiliation to the party by increasingly violent means.

As AfD edges closer to power in eastern Germany, the political establishment is looking at ways to curb its influence before it arrives.

A Bavarian council is weighing whether political views should outweigh a lifetime of cultural achievement after activists demanded the honour be withdrawn.

Establishment forces are crying wolf ahead of a potential AfD-led government in Saxony-Anhalt.

According to the court, the officer’s former AfD position raises “well-founded doubts about his loyalty to the constitution.”