Far right parties soar, hammering Merkel in German vote
Alternative for Germany takes 15% and 12% in southwest states, and 24% in eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt amid growing anti-migrant sentiment
View ArticleHead of German anti-Islam group due in court for hate speech
Lutz Bachmann, founder of far-right PEGIDA, charged with inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts
View ArticleGerman party calls for end to ritual slaughter
Alternative for Germany, which scored three state parliament victories in March, also seeks ban on ritual circumcision, headscarves
View ArticleGerman leader joins battle to halt rise of France’s far-right
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen decries ‘outrageous and humiliating interference’ by Angela Merkel
View ArticleAfter failed talks, right-wing German party takes aim at Islam
Senior members of AfD slam local Muslims for failing to renounce religious beliefs that clash with constitution
View ArticleGerman leftist leader hit with cake over migrant crisis
‘Anti-fascist’ activists say they struck opposition politician Sahra Wagenknecht with cake after she called for limits to refugee influx
View ArticleGerman populist party slams Muslim soccer player Ozil
Leader of far-right ‘Alternative for Germany’ party attacks Turkish-German player for Mecca pilgrimage, not singing anthem
View ArticleGerman far-right leader blasts ‘dictator’ Merkel
‘Alternative for Germany’ pol accuses government of attempting to ‘gradually replace’ Germans with foreigners
View ArticleGerman vice-chancellor compares populist AfD to Nazis
Sigmar Gabriel accuses far-right populists of pining for ‘when Wehrmacht songs were sung in the evenings over beers’
View ArticleGerman lawmaker accused of anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial
Wolfgang Gedeon avoids party expulsion until experts weigh in on writings in which he calls the Holocaust a ‘civil religion of the West’
View ArticleBavaria bomber chatted online just before explosion
State interior minister says the former IS fighter spoke with a contact who had ‘significant influence’ over attack
View ArticleGerman Jewish leaders: Far-right party’s strong showing in election a...
Alternative for Germany, founded in 2013, has seen mounting successes in state elections
View ArticleFar-right gains as Merkel party takes hit in Berlin state vote
Anti-Islam AfD gets boost from Europe’s refugee crisis in election also dominated by domestic issues
View ArticleGerman far-right MP pushes recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Though boycotted by Israel, Alternative for Germany lawmaker Petr Bystron says he's planning to visit later this year with a Bundestag delegation
View ArticleGermany says every state can name capital, but not Jerusalem
Replying to far-right MP's query, Berlin argues that Israel's 1980 declaration of the united city as its capital violated international law
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