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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's main political parties were unveiling their manifestos on Tuesday, offering competing visions to lift Europe's largest economy out of the doldrums while fighting off a ...
Merz, whose conservative bloc has held a comfortable lead in the polls throughout the campaign, had already caused dismay within his party for saying the law was so important he was prepared to ...
MUNICH (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a strong rebuke on Saturday to U.S. Vice President JD Vance's attack on Europe's stance toward hate speech and the far right, saying it ...
At least five people, including a 9-year-old, are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday, German officials said ...
The German far right party AfD called for major rallies across Germany after the attack. [91] The AfD's parliamentary leader, Bernd Baumann, demanded that Chancellor Scholz call a special session in the Bundestag on what he described as a "desolate" security situation. [92] Mourners on Christmas Eve
In all three states, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) gained large numbers of voters. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The bad state election results for the traffic light coalition parties were seen by many as reflecting dissatisfaction with their performance at the federal level.
Currently the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling first, after earlier this month it became the first far-right party since World War Two to win a state election, in Thuringia.
On 7 December 2022, 25 members of a suspected far-right terrorist group were arrested for allegedly planning a coup d'état in Germany. [4] The group, called Patriotic Union [] (German: Patriotische Union), which was led by a Council (German: Rat), [5] was a part of the German far-right extremist Reichsbürger movement. [1]