Merz snubs Trump after US president backed AfD
Friedrich Merz cancelled a phone call with Donald Trump hours after the US president celebrated the AfD’s election…
This is How You Speak to Fascists. Dems, are you Listening?
Me being a sometimes naive optimist, after Trump announced his first Presidential run in the same speech where…
Move by Trump angers Germany: He postponed the phone call
Reports in the German press linked the postponement to a social media statement by Trump following the Saxony-Anhalt…
New attempts to ban the AfD will only boost its support
It took Germany’s conservative political establishment two days to come up with what it thought was the resounding…
New attempts to ban the AfD will only boost its support
It took Germany’s conservative political establishment two days to come up with what it thought was the resounding…
Merz says AfD cannot win absolute majority support in Germany
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz participates in the general debate as part of the budget deliberations in the Bundestag,…
Germany’s Merz warns efforts to ban AfD would not ‘solve problem’
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has poured cold water on renewed calls for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)…
AfD Saxony-Anhalt win: Alice Weidel and Friedrich Merz clash over Ukraine and migration
Alternative for Germany leader Alice Weidel attacked Chancellor Friedrich Merz in parliament on Wednesday after her party defeated…
Germany’s old political class has not been slain – it’s self-destructed
Germany’s post-unification political order as we knew it is coming to an end. The AfD won a historic…
Merz, Weidel to face off in Bundestag after AfD election victory
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and far-right opposition leader Alice Weidel are set to face off in the Bundestag on…
‘Turning blind eye’ to AfD win further angers voters, political scientist warns
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his coalition government’s response to the historic victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany…
Germany at the Crossroads: Merz, the AfD and the Fracturing of the Postwar Centre
For decades, Germany appeared to possess something that many European democracies had gradually lost: a political center strong…