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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 · Nov 7, 2024

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 · Nov 5, 2024

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 · Nov 4, 2024

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 · Oct 21, 2024

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 · Sep 30, 2024

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 · Sep 30, 2024

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 · Sep 28, 2024

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

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2024

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.

Al Jazeera · Sep 25, 2024

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 · Sep 25, 2024