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A new far-right group has been formed in the European Parliament under the name "Europe of Sovereign Nations" (ESN), gathering controversial parties that until today lacked political affiliation due to the radical character of their ideas. The formation encompasses 25 MEPs from eight member states, enough to establish a formal group in the hemicycle and avoid the category of non-attached, which greatly reduces the relevance and speaking time of lawmakers. Its composition and name were announced on Wednesday afternoon after a constitutive meeting in Brussels, ending days of mounting speculation...
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Will there be new far-right groups at the European Parliament for the just started legislative mandate? Negotiations are ongoing to constitute old and maybe new political far-right group at the European Parliament, including the meeting today (Wednesday 26 June) of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) that will elect its co-presidents. Radio Schuman talked with Euronews journalist Vincenzo Genovese about the ongoing negotiations and divisions within the far-right and which are the possible scenario about group formation. We dive into the re-appointment of Valerie Hayer as the presid...
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The director of the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial has warned that the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is too dangerous to be allowed to continue in German politics, citing lessons from the rise of the Nazi Party as a warning. "AfD repeats the terminology of Nazis," German historian Jens-Christian Wagner said on Monday during a press conference calling for a ban on far-right party. “The party, i.e. the AfD and its officials and functionaries, represent positions against human dignity," said Wagner. "They repeatedly make ideological and terminological use of the programmes...
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Germany’s ruling coalition government suffered a blow in last night’s election fallout, with the German Chancellor’s social democratic SPD party coming in third place behind the controversial far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which secured 15.9% of the vote. His coalition partners fared little better, with the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) taking just over 5% of the vote. The Greens saw a significant loss, dropping nine seats compared to the previous election in 2019, with 11.9% of the vote. The centre-right Christian Democrats took the clear lead, gaining 30% of the vote, sending...
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As far-right parties prepare to overcome their political fragmentation, the German AfD is increasingly aware it will need a new European parliamentary family after its expulsion from the ultra-conservative Identity and Democracy (ID) group. And if AfD calls, other parties could be tempted to join the new alternative far-right group, the Euronews Super Poll reports. The European right is clearly divided by political incompatibilities and different interests. Steven Van Hecke, professor of EU politics at the KU Leuven, told Euronews why a single far-right group would be highly unlikely in the ne...
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Heinrich Koch, a local council candidate for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was injured in an apparent knife attack in Mannheim on Tuesday night. The Federal spokesman of the AfD party, Tino Chrupalla, posted on X that Koch was confronted as he confronted people pulling down posters in the German southwestern city of some 300,000. "Our members and representatives are the most frequent victims of political violence and destruction. That cannot stop us," added Chrupalla. Police in Mannheim confirmed that a police investigation is underway in connection to the incident. In an alleged vi...
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Far-right political parties have turned to social networking to help them target young people ahead of the European elections. Tom Vandendriessche, a Belgian MEP for the Vlaams Belang believes the tactic may work as the younger generation is losing trust in traditional parties. "I think that young people look at the future and the future looks grim for them. How could they have trust in these traditional parts, the Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats, the Liberal Democrats who have been governing us for decades and who have brought us into this mess of uncontrolled borders, of mass migra...
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Germany has witnessed a surge in right-wing, racist, and anti-Semitic violence, reaching unprecedented levels, since 2013. Victim support group Ezra says there is a direct link between the increase in right-wing violence and support for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), currently polling second nationwide and expected to make sweeping gains in the upcoming elections in three eastern states. Mayar, a 20-year-old nurse who fled Syria during the war and has lived in Germany for nearly nine years, feels a strong sense of German identity, having grown up there. He recounts the mome...
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At an Alternative for Germany (AfD) European election campaign in Berlin, two of the far-right party's candidates, Dr Alexander Sell and Mary Khan-Holoch, discussed national pride and how the AfD hopes to make Germans proud of being German again. The crowd was largely made up of pensioners. However, there were also quite a few young people in the mix. Khan-Holoch herself is 30 years old, and she did not hesitate in her answer to the question of what makes the AfD so attractive to first-time and young voters. "Germans feel afraid of becoming strangers in their own country," Khan-Holoch told Eur...
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made gains in local elections in the state of Thuringia, but failed to secure outright victories – this after one of the party's best-known figures was recently convicted of knowingly using a Nazi slogan in a speech. Sunday's elections at county and mayoral level in Thuringia come ahead of a state election on 1 September in which Alternative for Germany's local leader, Björn Höcke, plans to run for the governor’s job. Official results with about four-fifths of districts counted on Monday showed Alternative for Germany, or AfD, gaining nearly nine...
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