News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
One of Germany's largest political parties, Alternative for Germany, has been debanked by a major banking chain following a campaign by activist group Grandmothers Against the Right.
Olaf Scholz is coming under pressure to follow Emannuel Macron's example and call a snap election after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in EU elections.
What is mass migration for, why does it keep happening and why will nobody stop It? Eugyppius looks at the main theories behind Europe's seemingly unclosable borders and the elites' odd attachment to the disastrous policy.
Germany's domestic intelligence chief has defended his efforts to police the "thought and speech patterns of citizens" as he outlines the distinctly East German-sounding offence of "delegitimisation of state conduct".
Police officers in Germany pulled a 16 year-old girl out of class and told her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok, a move defended by a Minister as "preventing her from committing a crime".
German politicians are so worried about the rise of anti-democratic forces they are taking decisive action to ban criticism of Government figures and sending police to search the homes of dissenters.
The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
Eugyppius paints a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Germany, as the Government seeks to use increasingly antidemocratic measures to suppress opposition.
Yes, the German President did liken AfD supporters to "rats", says Robert Kogon. The claim that he was just alluding to the Pied Piper leading children astray doesn't stack up. And anyway, that's offensive enough.
German intelligence agency the BfV has branded leading politician Hans-Georg Maaßen a "Right-wing extremist" for criticising globalism, the Green Party and mass immigration after he proposed working with AfD.
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