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Angela Merkel has recommended that Germans who are concerned about Islamisation should play Christmas carols on the recorder to contain any possible threat.

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The Christian Democratic Union, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have had their worst election result ever in the German capital of Berlin.

The car belonging to Frauke Petry, leader of the anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was set alight last night in what is believed to be an arson attack. Police in Leipzig have ruled out an technical defect as

Donald Trump has labelled mass migration to France and Germany a “disaster”, stating that open borders policies are “destroying Europe”.

Contents: Migrants from Libya to Italy surge in the Mediterranean; Anti-immigrant party in Germany hands Angela Merkel a stinging defeat

After the Alternative for Germany (AfD) populist party handed Angela Merkel’s CDU party a humiliating defeat in her home state Sunday, the victors are saying that the Chancellor brought this on herself with her woeful immigrant policy.

Support for Angela Merkel’s conservatives has slipped as more voters turn to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), a poll showed on Wednesday, a year after the chancellor prompted criticism by saying Germany would cope with the migrant crisis.

The head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) says Berlin should send rejected asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to islands outside Europe and turn its refugee office into an emigration bureau.

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.

Morgan Stanley analysts have said whatever its result, the UK’s referendum will likely boost populism across Europe. Analysts from the financial services corporation have argued that a vote to leave the European Union (EU) will embolden populist parties. They cautioned that

Left-wing extremists have put up chilling posters labelling an Alternative for Germany (AfD) member a “Nazi” and calling for action against her. Her address and photographs of her with her young daughter have been printed on the flyer. In Wilhelmsburg

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel compared members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to the Nazis in comments published on Sunday, and said some of them wanted to take German society back to the 1960s.

Next week the head of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) will meet with French Front National leader Marine Le Pen to celebrate a “Patriotic Spring” event near Vienna, along with representatives from other right wing European parties. It will be

The Deputy leader of the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party has blasted Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as a “dictator” in comments made this weekend. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper reports that Alexander Gauland, the deputy leader of the anti-mass migration party,

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) left a meeting with the Central Council of Muslims early after the party refused to compromise on a minaret ban. The meeting between the Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) and AfD leader Frauke Petry was initially

The anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party has called on the Saxony state legislature in Germany to review the foreign bank accounts of asylum seekers, reasoning that if a migrant is able to hand thousands of euros to pay people

Germany’s left wing Justice Minister Heiko Maas has lashed out at the rising Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as “unconstitutional” for their new political programme.  Breitbart London reported on Monday that  in response to their growing popularity, the previously single-issue, Euroskeptic

(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,

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) – German left-wing demonstrators clashed with police on Saturday as they tried to break up the first full conference of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies came under attack. Police counted up

400 radical-left activists were arrested in Stuttgart today as they attempted to prevent the Alternative for Germany (AfD) from starting their annual conference, at which they are to thrash out the contents of their Spring manifesto.

The Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, Rainer Maria Woelki, has publicly criticized leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party for their statements against Islam, insisting that “whoever says ‘yes’ to church towers must also say ‘yes’ to minarets.”

A new ruling in a German city court says the government can build migrant homes anywhere, and some are advocating flooding small countryside communities with migrants. In Hamburg, where there has been vocal protest over the building of asylum homes, a

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is joining forces with the environmentalist Greens and the center-left Social Democrats to freeze out a nationalist party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Merkel’s Christian Democrats came first in last month’s

The Central Council of Muslims in Germany has likened the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to the Nazis over a proposed ban on minarets. Over the weekend the European Parliament leader for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Beatrix

(Reuters) – The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) said on Sunday Islam is not compatible with the German constitution and vowed to press for bans on minarets and burqas at its party congress in two weeks’ time. The AfD punished

In Berlin the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party could see huge gains in the traditionally left wing stronghold of East Berlin. In one of Berlin’s traditionally left wing areas the migrant crisis has left wing parties worried that  the anti-mass

The Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party which recently surged in local elections in Germany has announced its Vice Chairman’s formal departure from the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament. Beatrix Von Storch MEP has officially joined

German media’s April Fools’ joke claimed that Amazon is selling a Nazi swastika lamp, saying it’s perfect for members of Alternative for Germany (AfD). The wall lamp, which was supposedly posted on Amazon.de, appears to be a Photoshop of existing lamps

A leader of a rising German nationalist party says it won’t tolerate members having contact with the far right, comments that come after the leadership dissolved one of its local branches. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, announced Thursday it was

Leading members of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have expressed envy at Britain’s upcoming European Union (EU) referendum, confirming they want “every Member State” to have one. AfD Deputy Chairman Beatrix von Storch MEP was one of

BERLIN (Reuters) – A car radiator repair boss, a longtime soldier and an economics professor – they are unlikely bedfellows leading the charge of an anti-immigration party that has come from nowhere to disrupt the cosy, stable world of German

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood firm Monday on her refugee policy, despite a drubbing in regional elections described as a “debacle” in which disgruntled voters turned to the anti-migrant AfD. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was at the receiving end

Germany’s leading politicians are mulling the fallout from state elections that brought gains for a nationalist, anti-migration party and two major disappointments for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives. The three-year-old Alternative for Germany, or AfD, powered into three state legislatures Sunday

Traumatised by its Nazi past, post-war Germany has carefully relegated right-wing populist movements to the fringes of politics, but the anti-migrant AfD may have muscled its way in from the cold. With discontent growing in Germany over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s

BERLIN (Reuters) – Critics of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policies called on her to change course after voters in three regional elections punished her conservatives and flocked to a new anti-immigration party that wants German borders closed. Merkel’s Christian