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Germanys far-right is pushing to dismantle the European Union and transform it into a loose confederation of nation-states with limited powers.

Several states saw hundreds of thousands of protesters return to the streets against far-right extremism. Saturday's protests coincided with the observance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

With an estimated 20,000 members, the Reichsbürger movement brings together strands of disaffected, anti-establishment, right-wingers and others: those either angry at the post-WWII federal republic, or nostalgic for a Germany long gone.

Shunned for decades as politically poisonous, far-right parties scored big wins this year. Now they’re in the mainstream.

It's a course correction

April 13, 2021 last updated 9:52 ET Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Armin Laschet, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Aug. 18, 2020 (AP photo by Martin Meissner). Can Armin Laschet Lead Germany’s CDU Into the Post-Merkel Era? BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s preferred successor, Armin Laschet, might have won the leadership of her center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, but he still faces an uphill battle to ...