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Germany Marks 1989 Berlin Wall Fall With 'Preserve Freedom' Party

Germany marks 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities from Saturday under the theme "Preserve Freedom!"

International Business Times

Why has Germany’s government collapsed and what happens next?

Olaf Scholz’s sacking of his finance minister has plunged Europe’s largest economy into considerable uncertainty

The Guardian - UK

Olaf Scholz faces calls for confidence vote after German coalition collapses

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz opposes timetable laid out by chancellor in news conference

The Guardian - UK

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As a former East German athlete doped by the state, I see how our past pain is fuelling the far right

In east Germany, our history is shrouded in lies and silence. Until we break their hold, support for extremism will flourish, says academic and author Ines Geipel

The Guardian - UK

Climate crisis leaves European farmers vulnerable to far right, say campaigners

Populist groups capitalising on costly environmental policies that affect farmers by offering them support

The Guardian - UK

The Nazis hated the Bauhaus. Now the AfD is picking a fight with its legacy too

A state parliament debate about the design movement shows how fear of ‘un-German’ ideas is being revived for the 21st century, says Katja Hoyer, a German-British historian and journalist

The Guardian - UK

German MP tries to counter AfD’s TikTok dominance with slang-filled video

Christian Dürr’s 75-second video, part of efforts to challenge far right party’s influence on platform, triggers slew of ‘cringe’ comments

The Guardian - UK

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Group that emerged from Tory party hosts forum for Britain’s far right

Traditional Britain Group’s London conference includes speaker from Germany’s AfD party and far-right activists

The Guardian - UK

It’s too easy to claim Sahra Wagenknecht is beyond the pale. Here’s what German voters see in her

Progressives shouldn’t dismiss the ‘left-conservative’ leader – her popularity is driven by her powerful critique of runaway capitalism, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

The Guardian - UK

As a recent migrant to Germany I say this: the border clampdown is an insult to the values championed here

Even as I am taught about the German credo of tolerance and compassion, the government is betraying it, says Bonita Dordel a communications consultant

The Guardian - UK

How did the far right win in Austria? To understand, look to its global networks

The Freedom party hasn’t only harnessed discontent at home – it is drawing on once-fringe ideas that have spread around the world, says Austrian academic and author Julia Ebner

The Guardian - UK

Victory in Austria is another step in far right’s march across Europe

If FPÖ can take power it will join a growing Moscow-friendly, anti-Brussels, autocratic bloc in the EU

The Guardian - UK

German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus

Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg Dornau

The Guardian - UK

Eastern German legislature elects mainstream conservative speaker after far-right election win

Lawmakers have elected a mainstream conservative as speaker of the state parliament in eastern Germany’s Thuringia region, putting aside a convention that the strongest party gets the job after the far-right Alternative for Germany won a regional election for the first time

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Al Jazeera

Not just AfD: What’s the BSW, Germany’s rising populist left party?

The party founded in January espouses anti-NATO, anti-immigrant populist rhetoric while promoting left-wing economics.

The Guardian - UK

EU moving towards more xenophobic view of ‘Europeanness’, report warns

‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

The Guardian - UK

I was relieved to see the AfD beaten in my home state. Now we must confront why it is so popular

East Germany’s social fabric is torn after decades of neglect. Without repairing it, we can never hope to truly fend off fascism, says German writer Eva von Redecker

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Olaf Scholz’s struggling coalition: running out of time

Editorial: A pyrrhic victory for social democrats in the latest state election offers scant consolation. The German far right continues to strengthen

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The Guardian - UK

Germany’s SPD mulls deal with hard left in Brandenburg after far-right defeat

Surprise win for chancellor’s centre-left party is tempered by need to deal with BSW to form state government

The Conversation

AfD: how Germany’s constitution was designed with the threat of extremism in mind

German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD has narrowly held off the rightwing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in regional elections in Brandenburg, nudging them into second place.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD Wins Brandenburg State Election

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD wins Brandenburg state election, setting stage for closely contested federal election.

France 24

Scholz's party fends off far-right AfD in German state vote

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) looked set to fend off the far-right in a state election in eastern Germany. The SPD scored 31.9% of the vote, ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) on 29.2% in a last-minute comeback.

International Business Times

Scholz's Party Narrowly Leads Far-right AfD In East German State Vote: Exit Polls

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats were narrowly ahead of the far-right AfD Sunday in a state election in the formerly communist east, according to exit polls.

The Guardian - UK

Germany: exit polls show Olaf Scholz’s party narrowly beating far-right AfD in key state election – as it happened

AfD calls its performance in Brandenburg ‘huge success’ but Social Democratic party projected to take the lead

The Guardian - UK

Far-right AfD eyes further electoral gains in key German state of Brandenburg

Ballot being seen as referendum on Olaf Scholz’s government ahead of next autumn’s general election

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