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Is the Far-Right Finally in Decline?

I n 2014, it became the first far-right party to enter the lower house of the country’s parliament since World War II. The party gained 94 out of 709 seats in that lower house in 2017, shaking the traditional balance of the parliamentary government. However, whereas the party won 10.6% of the votes in the southern state of Thuringia in 2014, it captured almost a quarter of the vote in 2019. Headlines began comparing the party’s leader to Adolf Hitler, wondering if its rise marked fascism’s return to Germany. Clearly, within the last decade, Alternativ for Deutschland (AfD) has become a far-right force to be reckoned with. That is, until October 2020, when the polls found that support for the party in right-leaning eastern Germany had fallen from 24% to 18%, polling behind Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Left party. Within a year, violent incidents perpetrated by far-right extremists and infighting within the party had resulted in a loosening of

Killer drones for German army? Defense minister pushes for combat UAVs, splits coalition, as MPs call for broader public debate

Follow RT on Germany’s defense minister insists combat drones are crucial for defending soldiers on the battlefield. SPD politicians, meanwhile, argue there has not been a meaningful public debate. “We want combat drones to protect the lives of our soldiers,” Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition partner the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been insisting that a wider public debate is needed. But Kramp-Karrenbauer dismissed this argument as “absurd.” “We have been debating this for eight years in Germany. Broad public debates and hearings took place,” she said. We have laid out operational principles that say combat drones may only be used defensively by the Bundeswehr, meaning to protect their own personnel. The demand for ‘more debate’ is being solemnly pushed by the SPD.

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