In his maiden speech as chancellor to Germany's Bundestag, Merz tried to position himself as a unifying centrist figure.

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...

The AfD has issued threats of a "war against the government," complains of a "knife jihad" on German streets and demands that millions be "remigrated." DER SPIEGEL has looked inside the 1,108-page ...

Romanian elections potentially tilting toward yet another populist phenomenon, it's time to probe what makes them so popular ...

Misleading claims that the "black-red" coalition government led by Friedrich Merz is set to introduce "censorship laws" under ...

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

It all started with a chocolate factory. One day in early 1990, my mother asked me to lunch with a distant cousin, Hilda. She ...

The German government banned a far-right antisemitic group that claims the German Reich still exists and arrested four of its leaders — including the self-proclaimed “king” of Germany.

Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi ...

Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal democratic basic order,” ...