When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded ...

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Friday in Munich with the leader of Germany's far-right AfD, his office confirmed, after endorsing the party as a political partner — a stance Berlin dismissed as ...

The vice president met with the leaders of all four major German political parties — including Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

Vance, who spoke at the annual Munich Security Conference on Friday sparked backlash for meeting with AfD leader Alice Weidel after scolding European leaders for boycotting the party. In an ...

But this arrangement—even when you win, you lose—has infuriated AfD supporters, and at the party meetings I attended recently, they were in a storm-the-Bastille mood, eager to take down an old ...

AfD co-chairwoman Alice Weidel delivers a speech at the meeting of the German Bundestag. Filip Singer/EPA-EFE The party advocates a return to a blood-based citizenship, insisting that, with very ...

Scholz’s Social Democratic Party placed third ... Vice President Vance recently met with Alice Weidel, the head of the AfD. The meeting took place after Vance gave a speech in which he said ...

In January 2024, tens of thousands of people across the country protested against the party after it emerged members of the AfD had attended a meeting with neo-Nazis to discuss the mass deportation of ...

Vice President Vance met Friday with a leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, making him the ... earlier in the week in Paris. The meetings took place ahead of Germany ...