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Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

THREE and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed wires and dogs, that line now divides Germans by measures like income and ...

Dutch far right leader Geert Wilders is being sidelined by geopolitical developments elsewhere, writes journalist Gordon ...

After coming second in Germany's recent election, the far-right AfD party now holds even more parliaments seats than before. Constitutional experts are worried.

AfD party leader Alice Weidel is known for her harsh rhetoric. In parliamentary debates she has derided Muslim immigrants as “headscarf girls’ and “knife men.” That type of noise makes headlines and ...

Germany took an expected turn to the right electing a conservative businessman to lead the country while an upstart far-right ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled The Russian Menace to Europe. The authors were listed as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was a collection of ...

Alice Weidel is the leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party but is married to a Sri-Lankan born woman. A gay woman, she has two children with her partner, but is part of a ...

It is now set to be the main opposition party, and that will mean a more prominent role for its co-leader Alice Weidel. DW's Matthew Moore takes a closer look at the woman who's become the public ...

German voters gave the far-right AfD party second place in elections, which will make the Christian Democrat Party's Friedrich Merz the next chancellor.