The BfV then issued its annual report on domestic extremism in June, declaring that 20,000 members of the AfD are themselves right-wing extremists. The AfD reports approximately 50,000 total members.

AfD co-founder and former leader Alexander Gauland once fittingly described his party as an “unruly rabble.” Strategic thinking is not in the DNA of the AfD, a party that was founded in 2013 ...

The AfD, founded in 2013 to oppose European Union bailouts for Southern European countries, disagreed, arguing that these migrants would prove unassimilable. The other parties rallied around Ms ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, said she feels reminded of "dark times" by the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) push for a possible ban on ...