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German centre-right leader retreats from remarks about working with AfD

Friedrich Merz suggested his CDU was willing to cooperate with far-right party at local level, but rows back after outraged reaction

The Guardian - UK

Germans aren’t buying Scholz’s plan to keep them safe and rich

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is struggling to persuade Germans he can handle the litany of troubles looming over the country he has led since 2021.

Tribune News Service

German leader confident that surging far-right party will shrink again before next election

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed optimism that support for a far-right party that’s been surging in the polls lately will shrink to previous levels again by the time of the next national election in 2025

The Independent UK

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Germany’s far-right AfD makes key political gains as Olaf Scholz's governing coalition wobbles

Opinion polls and local election results currently make unhappy reading for Germany’s government. In fact, the consistently strong performance of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Europe’s largest member state (and arguably the member state with the best reasons to ward off a far-right challenge) is worrying for everyone.

The Conversation

German opposition leader takes aim at migration, but largely rules out working with far right

Germany’s conservative opposition leader says large-scale migration is one of the country’s biggest problems and the main reason for a recent surge in support for the far right

The Independent UK

A German county elected a far-right candidate for the first time since the Nazi era, raising concern

The election of the first head of a county administration by the far-right Alternative of Germany in a rural eastern region recently has lead to concern among opponents of the party

The Independent UK

German conservatives try to entice discontented voters and push down far-right

Leaders of Germany’s main opposition bloc are calling for voters turned off by the government to back them in two major state elections this fall

The Independent UK

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How Europe’s far right is marching steadily into the mainstream

Whether in Italy, Spain, France or Finland, parties that were once outcasts are fast gaining respectability – and power

The Guardian - UK

Video of apparent neo-Nazi handing out balloons at German nursery sparks outrage

Footage emerges day after Thuringia became first German state to elect a mayor from far-right Alternative für Deutschland party

The Guardian - UK

What far-right AfD’s district election win means for Germany

Alternative for Germany’s victory leads to outpouring of despair and recrimination from other parties and civil groups.

Al Jazeera

After a far-right victory in German county, a man in neo-Nazi clothing hands balloons to children

German authorities are investigating a video showing a man in neo-Nazi clothing handing balloons to kindergartners a day after the country’s main far-right party won control of a county administration

The Independent UK

Far right parties make comeback in both Greece and Germany

The far right has made a dramatic return to Greek politics after general elections on Sunday, while in Germany the AfD party won its first ever district election.

Radio France Internationale

AfD local election win: watershed moment for far-right in Germany?

Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has caused shock across the political spectrum by winning an election for the first time in the party’s 10-year history.

The Week

German government calls for tolerance after far-right party wins first county executive

Germany's government says the country is shaped by values such as tolerance and respect and has called for them to be upheld a day after a far-right party won control of a county administration for the first time

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The Guardian - UK

Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics

Central Council of Jews says it is devastated by populist party’s first victory in eastern town of Sonneberg

The Independent UK

German far-right party wins its first county leadership post as it rises in polls

The far-right Alternative for Germany party has seen its first head of a county administration elected in a rural eastern region

The Independent UK

As far right party surges, Germany's intelligence agency warns of growing extremism

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning of a growing threat of extremism, particularly from the far right, with the number of politically motivated crimes carried out by extremists reaching a record high last year

Tribune News Service

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German far-right party overtakes Chancellor Scholz’s Social Democrats in poll

The far-right AfD leapfrogged Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats for the first time to rank as Germany’s no. 2 party in a poll for broadcaster RTL.

The Independent UK

Prominent figure in German far-right party charged over alleged Nazi slogan

Prosecutors say a prominent figure in the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been charged over his alleged use in a 2021 speech of a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers

The Independent UK

Centrist parties alarmed as poll shows growing support for German far right

Prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll released showing support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high

The Guardian - UK

Across Europe, the far right is rising. That it seems normal is all the more terrifying

Austria, France, Germany, Sweden and now Spain – the firewall between the mainstream and the far right is crumbling, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Radio France Internationale

Six months after Mali banned French funding for NGOs, how are aid groups coping?

Six months after Mali's interim authorities decided to block all French public funding for non-governmental organisations operating in the country, RFI spoke to workers on the ground about how they are managing.

The Conversation

Will Europe's right-wing populists rally behind Trump in the 2024 presidential election?

In a controversial town hall interview on CNN, former United States president Donald Trump said if re-elected he would consider pardoning “a large portion” of the rioters who were convicted for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

Reuters

Berlin gets first conservative mayor in more than two decades

Berlin appointed its first conservative mayor in more than two decades on Thursday after the Christian Democrats (CDU) beat Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) in a repeat election in February, dislodging its centre-left coalition.

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