For eight years, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the Bundestag as a launch pad for ...

Germany's far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel launched a fiery attack on CDU chief Friedrich Merz in parliament, slamming his ...

Germany’s Bundestag debated the national budget on Wednesday and the far-right AfD party leapt at the chance to blame ...

Critics of the German far-right party say that the AfD is still far from having any real influence, as none of the other ...

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

On January 29, MPs from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) clustered around 46-year-old party leader Alice Weidel in parliament taking selfies. Weidel, dressed in a white rollneck and ...

After then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1 million refugees in 2015, the AfD, whose leadership by that time Weidel had joined, turned its attention to stronger ...

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...

Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri Lankan-born woman. She had led her party to second place before Sunday’s ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday unanimously elected party co-chair Alice Weidel as its candidate for chancellor in February's parliamentary elections, as thousands gathered outside ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An attendee wears a T-shirt supporting Alternative for Germany party (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel at an AfD election campaign event in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, February 1, 2025.

X billed the interview as a “conversation with the leading candidate to run Germany.” But Weidel and the AfD are not expected to come out on top in Germany’s Feb. 23 parliamentary election.