Publication

This commentary looks at the history and ideology of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which has a good chance of winning seats in the Bundestag’s 2017 elections. The conservative, family-centric party, which has benefitted from the political vacuum left by the CDU and a willingness to break domestic political taboos, is anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-EU and unenthusiastic about cooperating too closely with the US.