How did it start? Alternative for Germany, or AfD, was founded in 2013 and initially focused on opposition to bailouts for struggling countries in the eurozone debt crisis — measures that then ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country. Even though it is highly unlikely ...

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, AfD, sing the national anthem as they attend an election campaign rally of the party in Suhl, Germany (Markus Schreiber/AP) Alternative ...

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, hold German national flags as they attend an election campaign rally (Markus Schreiber/AP) But the party has proven adept at ...

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 ...

The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is second in the polls, on 21%. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats dropped one point to 15% while the Greens and the pro-market Free ...

Piotr Buras, a Polish expert on German politics, told RTÉ News that Sunday's election is a "very important moment" for the AfD. Mr Buras, who heads the Warsaw office of the European Council on ...

Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for chancellor, left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a press conference following their meeting in ...

Germany’s far-right AfD party looks set to make large gains when the country heads to the polls on Sunday. The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) look set to once again become the ...