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Carsten Braband & Mario Candeias provide a preliminary attempt to situate the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance within the German party system.

Germany's newly founded Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was holding its first party conference in Berlin on Saturday, where it was aiming to hone ambitious plans for the 2024 election year. The BSW's programme and list of candidates for the European elections in June are to be finalized at the event held in the capital's Kino Kosmos conference centre, once the largest cinema in the former East Germany. The draft manifesto is sharply critical of the European Union and calls for a ...

This new formation is seeking to collaborate with the parties supporting the genocide in Gaza and a policy of militarism and social cuts at home.

Europe News: BERLIN: An icon of Germany's far left launched her own party on Monday, promising to rescue democracy in the European Union's largest economy from the.

The former Left Party politician presented her team at a press conference in Berlin. It aims to defy labels with a mix of left-leaning economic, conservative migration and pro-Russian foreign policy initiatives.

Germany's former hard-left star politician Sahra Wagenknecht, who recently left Die Linke (The Left), has herself been elected leader of her new party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Wagenknecht will hold dual leadership with the former leader of the left-wing parliamentary group, Amira Mohamed Ali, the latter announced at a press conference in Berlin on Monday. Entrepreneur and university professor Shervin Haghsheno is the deputy chairman and member of parliament Christian Leye is t...

Sahra Wagenknecht, a former leading light in Germany's hard-left Die Linke (The Left) party who left to form her own political movement, officially founded her breakaway party in Berlin on Monday. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) wants to establish itself as the "people's party" in Germany for the next 30 to 40 years and fundamentally change politics, Wagenknecht and her fellow campaigners said at a press conference. Earlier, 44 initial members had formally founded the BS...

An icon of Germanys far left launched her own party on Monday, promising to rescue democracy in the European Unions largest economy from the threat posed by voters deserting traditional centrist... -January 08, 2024 at 11:09 am EST - MarketScreener

The former Left Party politician presented her team at a Berlin press conference Monday. It aims to defy labels with a mix of left-leaning economic, conservative migration, and pro-Russian foreign policy initiatives.

German police have arrested an ax-wielding attacker believed to be suffering from mental health issues after he injured seven people at the main train station in Dusseldorf Thursday.The 36-year-old man is from the former Yugoslavia, according to police, w