The far-right AfD presents itself as a patriotic party, but revelations about possible monetary payments from Russia and a suspected Chinese spy have exposed its members as traitors to their country. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the Kremlin even draf...

The German chancellor and his foreign minister recently visited China and the Middle East and the government is conducting crisis diplomacy at all the global hotspots. But Berlin has failed to deliver much, and some are asking if Germany is even a gl...

An open letter about Hitler salutes in the schoolyard and swastikas on the benches of a school in the municipality of Burg made nationwide headlines in Germany. But is the place really a hotbed of right-wing extremism? We went to find out.

The Identitarian Movement in Germany seemed to have ebbed. But now the right-wing extremists are making a comeback. They have close ties to the Alternative for Germany party and a notable financier who used to be an important member of the center-rig...

With Europe falling significantly behind on its targets for ammunition production, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is stepping in to help. He wants to significantly boost the domestic industry to assist in providing aid pledged to Ukraine.

Two huge companies farm salmon right off the coast of Iceland. Critics warn that escaped farm fish present an existential danger to wild populations in the country. The country's president – and the singer Björk – have entered the debate.

Five years after the fire at Notre-Dame, the iconic cathedral in Paris now has a roof and a tower again. The reconstruction is almost complete in what is no less than a national tour de force that has led to rare unity in a divided republic.

Around 30 percent of the Latvian population are Russian speakers. The government believes they could provide Vladimir Putin with a bridgehead into the country. The atmosphere is growing tense.

Almost 50 people have recently died in drug-related violence in Marseille – even as ever more people are moving there. The government is investing billions in the city, but can it still be saved?

Too little and too outdated: If the United States were to abandon its protection of Europe, the German arsenal of weapons would barely be enough to defend the country. Companies like Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann are trying to change the stat...