Alternative for Germany

Party leader Alice Weidel made this statement, hailing the United Kingdom's exit from the EU as a perfectly correct move.
"It is a model for Germany, an option to be able to make such a sovereign decision," said Alice Weidel in an interview with the Financial Times.

Democracy is under threat across the world. Fewer people today live in democracies than did two decades ago. Opposition to democracy, and to capitalism, has grown as populists launch "culture wars" - cruelly exploiting migrants and minorities - and appeal to the socially and economically excluded. This is a cocktail variously stirred by Trump, Brexit, Modi, Le Pen, Orban and Meloni.

Robert Lambrou, the candidate of the xenophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the elections for the parliament of the State of Hesse, is full of contradictions. Although he is the son of a Greek man from the town of Thiva, he is an official of a party which was founded with the sole aim of throwing Greece out of the euro.

The latest escalation of violence showed that the so-called Kosovo has no place in the Council of Europe and the EU, announced the spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Alternative for Germany.

Addressing the Bundestag, Merkel said that vaccination is progressing better and better, that the number of infections is declining.

On the one hand, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court could not have chosen a worse time to intervene in the public debate regarding the mandate of the European Central Bank, with its demand for explanations concerning the system of "quantitative easing" which is generally acknowledged as having saved the euro.

Weeks full of political drama. Unexpected twists and turns. Then tragedy. These are not the usual characteristics associated with contemporary politics in Germany.

"Some time in June this year, I gave an exhaustive video interview to journalist Nenad Radicevic. From that interview, he included merely one half of one sentence in the text, and with his very one-sided writing he misled the readers to believe that I was somehow affiliated with the neo-Nazis from Germany and neo-Ustasha from Croatia.

At 28 years old, Frohnmaier is the youngest MP for Alternative for Germany, or AfD, the right-wing populist party that shot to prominence in Germany in part by railing against an influx of mainly Muslim refugees and migrants from the Middle East and North Africa since 2015. It is now the third largest party in the Bundestag.

The rise of the racist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) will push back the integration of the Turkish community by at least 15 years, the general director of a bilingual radio station in Germany has said.