In January, Merz flirted with abandoning the firewall, at least for a vote on ... who famously warned the CDU (and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU) that it should represent the interests ...

Democrats have struggled ever since to find a message, messenger, or any sense of unity. What they’ve found instead is fury, ...

The demise of the Open Technology Fund could put millions at risk of being targeted by authoritarian governments for their ...

every other mainstream German party refuses to invite it into government. That blockade is known in Germany as the “firewall,” and it is a direct result of the country’s post-World War II ...

Berlin court has ordered parliamentary squad to lift ban on far-right lawmakers ...

The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead ...

The party's leader, Alice Weidel, has vowed to "break the firewall" that keeps mainstream parties from cooperating with the far-right. A protester in Berlin told NBC News that the AfD has gained ...

Riding on the back of that success, the party is now calling for an end to the consensus in German politics not to work with the far right. That "firewall" - Brandmauer in German - has worked ...

The task of tending the firewall’s flame was judged so important that the parties of the center increased their cooperation with the Green Party and the old East German Left. On immigration ...

In a display of the party’s confidence, the leader of the AfD’s youth wing, known as the Young Alternative (JA), told CNN on election night he is “certain” that the firewall would end ...

A user on X found that even American AI self-censors when it comes to sensitive topics relating to China — depending on the ...

A deal with the SDP, party of current Chancellor Olaf Scholz who finished in a humbling third place, would allow Merz to keep the far-right AfD away from power. The AfD finished second with 20.8 ...