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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam, European Community affairs correspondent

How remigration became a buzzword for global far right

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Freedom party of Austria leader Herbert Kickl (centre) is flanked by supporters at an election rally on 27 September 2024. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

They poured on to streets across Germany in the tens of thousands, wielding placards that read “Nazis out” and “Never again is now”.

Appalled by revelations that some among the far-right Alternative für Deutschland had attended a meeting in Potsdam at which “remigration” had been on the agenda, the protesters offered a powerful rebuttal to the idea that the mass deportation of migrants – including those with German citizenship – was a valid policy option for any decent politician.

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