Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Germany Election Results: Center-Right Leader Declares Victory—And Elon Musk-Boosted AfD Celebrates
Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...
German elections: CDU’s Merz looks set to be next chancellor as far-right AfD surges
Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, ...
Germany: Conservatives scrutinize state support for NGOs
Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc questions the political neutrality of some non-governmental organizations. That could weigh on relations with the center-left Social Democrats, their potential ...
Germany’s Energy And Climate Policy Under CDU: What To Predict
Germany's energy and climate policies under CDU in five points: The pace of climate action, transport sector development, ...
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How the historical memory of Nazism (partly) explains the success of the far right in Germany and Austria
The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for ...
CDU has limited options for forming government by shutting out second-place Alternative for Germany
Alternative for Germany, the reformation party that sits to the right of the CDU/CSU's centrist conservatism, received ...
Mother Jones4d
Perhaps the Biggest Winner in Germany’s Election: Nuclear Power
Germany’s conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party ...
The Atlantic10d
Germany’s Anti-Extremist Firewall Is Collapsing
It’s funny, then, that the biggest demonstrations in Germany that week were against the CDU—not by AfD supporters, but by their enemies on the left, who thought Merz had extinguished the ...
The Daily T: Why the AfD can’t be ignored as Germany swings right
The German elections have taken place and the Bundestag is looking a lot more right-wing than it was this time yesterday. The ...
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Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force
The AfD reached a particularly large number ... For his part, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed victory as he slammed US ...