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Public prosecutors in Germany have brought further criminal charges against far-right firebrand politician Björn Höcke for allegedly using a banned Nazi slogan. Höcke, who leads the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern state of Thuringia, is already facing criminal trial for allegedly using the banned slogan of the Nazi Party's SA stormtroopers, "Everything for Germany!" (Alles für Deutschland!) during a speech in May 2021 in the town of Merseburg. On Wednesday, public prosecutors in Halle brought another charge of using the emblems of a former Nazi organization against......

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) defended her party's stance toward Russia in a weekend interview with dpa, denying allegations that AfD politicians are too cozy with the Kremlin. "It is simply important to me that a very balanced view of things is not confused with an alleged closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin," Alice Weidel told dpa. Weidel, however, argued that the German government must strike more "balance" in its relationship with Russia and Ukraine. Russia launched a bloody full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the German government ......

Lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have sought to downplay revelations that AfD leaders met secretly with radical extremists. AfD lawmakers in parliament plan to discuss the revelations internally in the coming days, parliamentary group secretary Bernd Baumann told dpa on Tuesday ahead of a scheduled meeting of the group in Berlin. The news outlet Correctiv revealed that several top AfD officials met with far-right figures in Potsdam, including Martin Sellner, the long-standing Austrian leader of the far-right extremist Identitarian movement. Attendees at the Pots......

A senior member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was smeared with faeces during a public engagement on Friday evening. Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of the party that is riding high on an anti-immigration and anti-green agenda, was attacked in an event hall in the western town of Daun. Von Storch told dpa that the man asked her for a photo and she was ready to oblige. But he smeared her with excrement instead. "It was really disgusting," von Storch said. The man was overpowered by the police and is now under investigation. Von Storch said she filed a complaint. There had ......

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will enter the 2024 European election campaign under the leadership of incumbent EU Parliament member Maximilian Krah, the party said on Saturday. The 46-year-old lawyer won the vote with 65.7% approval at his party's European election meeting in the central city of Magdeburg. Delegates also elected a Bavarian member of the Bundestag or German parliament, Petr Bystron to second place on their candidate list for the European Parliament. He ran unopposed and received 82.4% of the vote. "We are now the most exciting right-wing party in all of Euro......

The leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at federal level has said it will fight with all means against being under surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency. "We will not let ourselves be destroyed as an alternative," party leader Tino Chrupalla said on Saturday in Stuttgart at the state party conference of the AfD in Baden-Württemberg. The Baden-Württemberg branch of the party has recently been under observation by the agency, known officially as the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. This is an attempt to discredit and disintegrate the AfD, Ch......