Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

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The appeal comes amid long-term strains on the debt limits, and the recent shift in U.S. security policy under President ...

On January 29, MPs from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) clustered around 46-year-old party leader Alice Weidel in parliament taking ... an economist with the German Institute for ...

The party’s leader, Alice Weidel, assumed it must be a ... says Sergey Lagodinsky, a German Member of the European Parliament. “But the bigger they get, the harder it is to block them, ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...

after the AfD was long kept at arm's length by the majority of German voters, and protested against by thousands on the streets. "Under Alice Weidel, the party has lost its horror for many voters ...

AfD head Alice Weidel speaks during a general debate of the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Sept.11, 2024. Credit: AP/Markus Schreiber Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has ...

The party recently praised by Elon Musk is now the second largest in Germany after its performance in Sunday's election.

Alice Weidel ... to the whole world: German borders are closed,” she told a cheering crowd when the AfD officially nominated her as its candidate last month. Ms. Weidel declined to speak to ...