News Round-Up
27 October 2024
by Will Jones
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If you think Hillary Clinton describing Donald Trump supporters as a "basket of deplorables" was demeaning, consider that one of Germany's top politicians has now compared AfD supporters to "flies on a pile of shit".
Eugyppius reports from the frontline of the German farmers' protest in Berlin, sparked by an agricultural diesel tax hike, now morphing into a wider anti-tax movement and expression of discontent with the Government.
AfD politicians in Germany stand accused of attending a meeting that considered the mass deportation of "unassimilated" German citizens. There's just one problem, says Eugyppius: it didn't happen.
The political landscape is shifting in Germany as AfD approaches 40% support in the East and a CDU faction announces plans to break away and cooperate with the Right-wing party that the CDU leadership has refused to touch.
An AfD candidate in Germany has won a mayoral election for the first time via the novel strategy of standing on an appealing political platform, seeing off rivals who opted instead to try to subvert the choices of voters.
On Monday, negotiators from the German federal and state Governments met to hammer out a solution to the migration crisis, but what they came up with is little but empty words, says Eugyppius.
Is there any other developed Western nation where the police, the press and the political establishment react with such indifference to a serious assault on a leading opposition party official, asks Eugyppius.
A spate of attacks on AfD politicians signals a rise in violent Left-wing extremism across Germany, says Ralph Schoellhammer. Worse is that many celebrate this.
Eugyppius cautions Germany's political establishment against banning AfD because it lacks the tools to move from a soft authoritarian regime to a hard one.
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