Thousands of demonstrators delayed the start of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) congress on Saturday in the eastern town of Riesa, with protesters blocking access roads and clashing with police,

A convention of a far-right party is being met by protests in Germany as it and other major parties launch their campaigns for the country’s election next month.

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) People stand in front of the stage of the Alternative for Germany, AfD, party convention in Riesa, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP) AfD election campaign posters with the inscription “AfD now ...

Planned protests organized by an alliance of activists have begun ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) two-day party conference, which kicks off Saturday morning in the eastern German town of Riesa in Saxony.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday confirmed Alice Weidel as its candidate for chancellor in the country’s upcoming election. Latest polls suggest that the party could secure 22 percent of the vote,

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has voted to swap out its controversial youth organization - a group which intelligence officials classify as right-wing extremist - with a new one. At a party conference on Sunday ahead of Germany's national elections on February 23,

RIESA, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated against a convention of the far-right Alternative for Germany on Saturday, blocking some roads and delaying the meeting’s start as ...

RIESA, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated against a convention of the far-right Alternative for Germany on Saturday, blocking some roads and delaying the meeting's start as parties ...

A rejected Afghan asylum-seeker killed two people and left several others injured in a stabbing in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

With a month until Germany votes in the nationwide election, Brian Melican examines the growing influence of the AfD during the campaign – and explains why, in the short term, there is no way of stopping the far-right party’s rise in the polls.

Last September, the AfD became Germany’s first far-right party in post-World War II history to win a state election outright, in the eastern region of Thuringia. Bjoern Hoecke, the state’s party leader, has been repeatedly accused of historical revisionism and convicted of using a Nazi slogan at election rallies.

The party was rebuffed in an appeal to the Saxon Higher Administrative Court against its designation as a "far-right extremist" group by Saxony's domestic intelligence agency. #EuropeNews