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9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right
17+ hour, 14+ min ago (258+ words) The ‘War on Terror’ gave far-right Islamophobia legitimacy, reach and electoral force. Before September 11, far right parties in Europe had been largely marginalised within the continent’s multi-party systems. Even where some won significant electoral support, many remained politically stigmatised or…...
Edel McGinley: The far-right do not need to win an election to influence politics
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (1034+ words) People protest during a rally called by Campact and Fridays for Future named 'Time to Act: Stop the AfD!' in Berlin. Picture John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images The gains made by Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party should…...
What the AfD's Victory Means for German Churches' Influence
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1353+ words) WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The sun was setting over the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation, and polls were set to close in an hour for a high-stakes election in Saxony-Anhalt, when the youth choir paused from singing to take a stand....
After the AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt win, Friedrich Merz draws a red line between lawful deportation and remigration
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (435+ words) Credits: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. This result is also a political setback for Merz’s CDU. The party came in far behind the AfD in a state it had been governing until then. In Berlin, Weidel sought to turn…...
Douglas Murray: Who’s Afraid of the ‘Far Right’?
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (237+ words) The Free Press Nothing thrills journalists more than throwing around the term far right. In addition, they relish each chance to describe the far right as being “on the march.” That is the gift that headline writers have been granted…...
The resistible rise of a fascist party in Germany
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (877+ words) Upon learning of the landslide electoral triumph of a fascist political party in a province that was once part of socialist Germany, these foreboding words immediately came to mind: “The womb is fertile still from which that crawled.” It is…...
Lagarde rejects far-left Mélenchon’s debt-cancellation plan
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (355+ words) French presidential candidate renewed his call in August for the ECB to freeze pandemic-era government debt. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde today dismissed French far-left presidential contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s proposal to wipe out government debt, describing it as illegal…...
Inside the rise of Germany’s far-right AfD party
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (1291+ words) In 2020, on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, standing outside the Neue Wache, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (pictured below, third from left) said: “Germany’s past is a fractured past - with responsibility for the murdering of millions and…...
TRT World - Will AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt win push Germany into political crisis?
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1174+ words) Since WWII, Germany adopted a migrant-friendly policy, supported European unification under NATO, and grew into Europe’s largest car manufacturer with a vibrant economy. Reunified after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany has driven EU enlargement into Eastern Europe and…...
The AfD's Victory Accelerates the Demise of Germany's Fake Conservatives
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (200+ words) Saxony-Anhalt was once part of the heartland of East Germany. Today it is a German flyover state, with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the Federal Republic. Yet, like our own Mississippi,... The AfD's Victory Accelerates the Demise…...