Alternative für Deutschland

The world’s richest man has written an op-ed in the newspaper Die Welt, endorsing the hard-right populist AfD party

Whatever motivated the perpetrator to do what he did, his actions were an attack on an intrinsic Western institution

Will a February snap election bring about the change so many of them crave?

At some point, German voters might ditch the mainstream parties for good

Unlike the AfD, a pop-up populist party founded only in 2013, the party has deep, and troubling, roots in Austrian politics

The politics of the EU have been increasingly at odds with those of some of its member states

The government may hit the panic button if the rise of the AfD cannot be halted

The stronger Alternative für Deutschland and potentially Wagenknecht’s new party become, the harder it will be for centrist parties to avoid collaborating with either of the two

Thuringia’s elections ought not to matter too much to the outside world. But it was here that the Nazis had their first electoral breakthrough

The opposition has accused Chancellor Scholz of playing party-political games with the war

How do things look now? Same as they did before

What the country needs right now isn’t moral outrage but level-headed pragmatism

Germany has dominated the EU since its inception, and their weak and inept leadership has angered and embittered voters across the bloc

Too many on the marches seem more keen to condemn the party’s voters rather than understand them

The spy agency has accused its former chief of being in close touch with the AfD

Nationalism, and the ‘populist revolt’ of 2016, is far from over