In 2012, when Europe was fully immersed in the debt crisis, a group of economists, academics, and lawyers opposed to bank bailouts launched the platform Wahlalternative 2013, which the following year led to the founding of Alternative for Germany (AfD). What had begun as a movement critical of the monetary union quickly changed course. The 2015 refugee crisis accelerated its drift toward the radical right and shifted its discourse toward immigration, nationalism, and the rejection of the European liberal order.

Without the necessary majority to govern, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is relying on defectors to come to power in Saxony-Anhalt. "I do not close the doors to anyone, I do not believe in sanitary cordons," said the party leader and election winner, Ulrich Siegmund, after an election in which the ultra-rightists came close to an absolute majority. Siegmund has already expressed his desire to forge a stable majority because governing as a minority would mean depending "on the mood of one deputy or another." Even so, he is calling on "individual actors who are willing to jump over their own shadow and who consider that the future of Saxony-Anhalt is more important than their own careers." Mind you, the condition set by the ultra-rightists is that their "basic positions are maintained."

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) The AfD has relaunched its youth wing in an attempt to improve its image ahead of the 2026 regional elections. Far-right leader Alice Weidel emphasized that Generation Germany—the name of the AfD's new youth wing—will be the party's "talent pool." Although founded just a week ago, the youth organization is already under scrutiny from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the intelligence service of the German Interior Ministry. Generation Germany takes over from the AfD's former youth organization, Alternative Jove, which was considered too radical and difficult to control, even for the far-right party's leadership, and classified as far-right by German authorities. Its status as an independent association made it more vulnerable to a potential ban, which could have severely damaged the party's image. The AfD leadership therefore decided in March to dissolve Alternative Jove and create a new, less extreme organization more closely linked to the party. This makes its banning legally more difficult and increases Weidel's control. Experts believe it cannot be banned unless the entire organization is. Members of Alternativa Jove will also be members of the AfD, unlike before. In this way, rule violations or misconduct by AfD youth members can be sanctioned, even with expulsion from the party.

More than 110,000 people marched through central London on Saturday in the largest far-right demonstration the United Kingdom has seen in decades. The anti-immigration march, dubbed a "free speech festival," featured a surprise appearance by Elon Musk via video link to support Tommy Robinson, the controversial activist who organized the rally, accused of hate speech and deliberately spreading false content. The march and the speeches became a parade of conspiracy theories, racist rhetoric, and MAGA hats, and the constant reminder of political and social grievances, amplified from both sides of the Atlantic.

The German intelligence services (BfV, the German acronym for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution) have formally designated the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as "extremist" and deemed it a threat to democracy. "The perception of people based on ethnicity and ancestry that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order," the agency said in a statement on Friday. This classification allows authorities to increase surveillance of the party, which He came second in the February federal elections, surpassing the Social Democrats for the first time, which came in third.

Germany's main opposition party has been formally classified as a right-wing "extremist" party and a threat to democracy. The country's intelligence services (BfV, or Office for the Protection of the Constitution) have thus classified the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a decision that could open the door to the party's future outlawing, although for now it still seems a remote possibility.

In Grünheide, a town of 9,000 inhabitants in former communist Germany where tech billionaire Elon Musk has built Tesla's first factory in Europe, the far-right was the party that received the most votes in the federal elections on 23 February. Alternative for Germany (AfD)

The election result of the Alternative for Germany has shaken Europe. The party led by Alice Weidel has become the second most voted party with 20.8% of the votes. its best result since World War IIFar from being a local or isolated phenomenon, Alternative for Germany has deployed its influence on the international stage with the support of Elon Musk and the vice president of the United States, JD Vance. But the German far-right party also has its alliances in Spain and Catalonia, with Vox and the Aliança Catalana. Both received an invitation from Weidel to be at his headquarters in Berlin this Sunday to follow the elections, which the coalition won. Christian Democrats of the CDU-CSU of Friedrich Merz.

Everything indicates that this Sunday's elections will be The scenario of AfD consolidation in GermanyBut where does the frustration of Germans come from, leading them to jump on this conservative wave? We spoke to Ali Aslan, an international television presenter and former adviser to the German government, who was in Barcelona last week to attend a CIDOB conference on these elections.

Germany's secret services have placed the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) under surveillance. AfD is currently the leading opposition party in the Bundestag with 88 MPs in the face of the coalition government formed by the two majority parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. This has been determined by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in a decision unheard of since the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. The BfV considers that it has sufficient evidence that the AfD is acting against constitutional principles and from now on will be able to take actions such as intercepting communications between party leaders or infiltrate its structure to collect evidence in view of an eventual illegalisation. This last step, however, would have to be decided by the German Constitutional Court.