Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday said it was "right" for German leader Angela Merkel to rule out working with the far right, even after he did the opposite in his previous government.
Several thousand people demonstrated Saturday in Erfurt, capital of Thuringia state in Germany's former communist east, where far-right lawmakers last week helped install a new state premier.
Despite attempts to constrain the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), almost every second German (48 percent) expects the party to be involved in a state or even federal government within the next ten years.
A leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on
Tuesday tried to link the devastating fire at Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral to
rising "intolerance" against Christians in Europe, although French
investigators believe the inferno was an accident.
Germany's domestic intelligence will step up
monitoring for political extremism of the far-right AfD party, sources said
Tuesday, a blow to the party in a busy election year.
It is not only offices of the AfD which are full of people cursing Germany's traditional political parties and speaking out against refugees; Weidel, Gauland and their colleagues also have a loyal fan base lauding them on the internet.
Cologne’s AfD office shares a kitchen and sanitation facilities with a refugee coordination office. Can this work out, or it is the material of the sitcom? Both parties have a very clear opinion about it.
The AfD has been dubbed "far-right" over the past year as it has taken on a tougher stance against immigration and made gains in state elections. But at what point does one call a group far-right?
The AfD party admitted this week that one of their newest elected politicians was once part of an extremist group. And his Facebook posts reveal more about his troubling thoughts on the Nazis.
There's barely a refugee to be seen on the streets of northeastern Germany, but in campaigning for Sunday's regional election they feature everywhere - particularly at rallies of the populist, anti-migrant AfD party.
One in four Germans would consider voting for an anti-euro party, according to a new survey - and a group of politicians are founding just such a party to stand in September's general election.
