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The Alternative for Germany party has surged to its highest level of support as populist policies continue to gain traction in the country.

Jewish supporters of the right wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are forming a faith-based group to represent Jewish issues in the party.

Germany has U-turned and blocked a new European Union (EU) mass migration scheme it once supported, because of the electoral success of the anti-mass migration AfD party, a Member of the European Party (MEP) has said.

German police have used a water cannon to disperse hundreds of leftist protesters attempting to stop the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party convention, with projectiles thrown at police, injuring one.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s nationalist party Alternative for Germany has elected two new top candidates for the September general election, after the party’s best-known politician, Frauke Petry, said last week she wouldn’t be available.

Carol Matlack writes in Bloomberg that Europe’s populist and nationalist parties are set to dominate upcoming elections due to “discontent over immigration, terrorism, and feeble economic performance.”

GERMANY (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party braced for a backlash at state polls Sunday, while anti-migrant populists are poised for major gains a year after the German leader opened the borders to refugees.

After a week of relentless attacks, the governor of Bavaria has insisted Islamist terror is dealt with as the Vice President of Germany’s AfD party demanded a Donald Trump-style temporary halt on asylum for Muslim migrants.

More than 800 attacks, including vandalism and death threats, have been reported by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — and the attackers may be receiving state funding. AfD state chairman Armin-Paul Hampel has revealed that over the last year the

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas states that the AfD are “nationalistic, authoritarian and misogynistic,” and compares the party to Donald Trump. Heiko Maas, German Federal Justice Minister and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), has upped the rhetoric against the

A leading German economist stated that the government’s economic policies are as much to blame for the rise of Alternative for Germany as its migration policies. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, said that the economic policies of the

At least one media source has drawn comparisons of the AfD to the Nazis because they want to hold an event at a Munich beer hall. The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has been embroiled in a row

The German government is blocking a Greek bailout in fear of being democratically replaced by the populist, Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party. In “AfD is the major hurdle in the Greek bailout”, Die Welt’s deputy economics editor, Jan Dams, has

An Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP is the first elected member of the party to speak at a PEGIDA rally, and commended PEGIDA leader Lutz Bachmann. AfD member of the parliament for Saxony-Anhalt Hans-Thomas Tillschneider has made history for the party

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has denied rumours that he will soon resign because the stress of the migrant crisis had impacted his health. The Socialist Party (SPD) in Germany is seeing historic lows in polls and a new rumour

A new poll has revealed that a large majority of Germans don’t believe Islam is a part of Germany, and many fear Islamisation. A recent survey of 2,054 Germans by the Insa-Institut on behalf of the Bild newspaper regarding the role

(Reuters) – German politicians from across the spectrum criticised the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Monday after the party declared Islam incompatible with the constitution. The AfD, which has surged onto the political scene since its launch three years ago,

Media across the Arab world has slammed the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party telling Muslims the AfD wants to wage a war on Islam. “Islam is the new goal of German right-wing populists,” read the headline of Kuwaiti Al Watan

A populist, right-wing political party in Germany has published its platform, in which its intention to ban circumcision and halal and kosher slaughter is laid out.