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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley, Jennifer Rankin and Lisa O'Carroll

EU’s far-right parties expel Germany’s AfD from their group

Maximilian Krah
The ID group said it ‘no longer wants to be associated’ with the incidents involving Maximilian Krah. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

The far-right German party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has been expelled from its pan-European parliamentary group after a string of recent controversies over its policy choices and the conduct of some of its leaders.

“The bureau of the Identity and Democracy group in the European parliament has decided today to exclude the German delegation, AfD, with immediate effect,” the ID group of populist far-right parties said in a statement on Thursday.

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