BERLIN — One of the peculiarities of the AfD is how different their approach has been compared to most other extreme right-wing forces in Europe. While Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia, Marine Le ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday nominated party leader Alice Weidel as its top candidate for the upcoming elections, marking the first time the anti-immigration, eurosceptic ...

In a live online talk with US billionaire Elon Musk, the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, accused former German chancellor Angela Merkel of having "ruined, ...

Elon Musk talks to Alice Weidel, right, federal chairwoman of Germany's AfD, at the party's election campaign launch via a video overlay in Halle (Salle), Germany, Jan. 25, 2025. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa ...

The tweet from Elon Musk arrived a few days before Christmas, and it felt like a gift from heaven to Germany’s far-right political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD). It consisted of six words: ...

MUNICH — She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an unconventional profile for the leader of a male-dominated ...

BERLIN — The far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday presented its candidate for chancellor in the country’s upcoming election. In practice, Alice Weidel has no chance of taking the ...

U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk livestreamed a chat with German far-right leader Alice Weidel on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday. On a livestream that peaked at over 200,000 ...

Ms Weidel’s charisma alone does not explain the AfD’s rise—indeed she is an uninspiring speaker. The 12-year-old party, like others on the hard right in Europe, has benefited from widespread anger ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the conversation between Elon Musk and Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel began with a straight-up untruth: Alice Weidel, the multibillionaire owner of the ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Wednesday hosted a German far-right party’s candidate for chancellor in Germany’s upcoming elections, a rare gesture from a sitting European ...