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Halle an der Saale, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– On the morning of April 18, in front of …

Chemnitz, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Germany and the United States have very different political cultures, but also …

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hamburg on Sunday ahead of a march through the inner city to demonstrate opposition to right-wing extremism in Germany. The organizers said that more than 50,000 people to marched under the slogan "We are the firewall – together against right-wing extremism." Police said they would issue its estimate of the crowd's size after the rally ends. The demonstration was the third of its kind in Hamburg since the start of the year, and cities...

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hamburg on Sunday ahead of a march through the inner city to demonstrate opposition to right-wing extremism in Germany. The organizers are expecting some 30,000 to march under the slogan "We are the firewall – together against right-wing extremism." Police had not yet put a figure on the number attending shortly after midday. The demonstration was the third of its kind in Hamburg since the start of the year, and cities across Germany have ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hamburg on Sunday ahead of a march through the inner city to demonstrate...

Just like disgruntled ex-CDU man Alexander Gauland, who founded the AfD to challenge the CDU, Maaßen’s one-man show also wants to challenge Germany’s

Controversial German politician Hans-Georg Maaßen officially launched his new right-wing party, the Values Union, on Saturday, participants at the meeting told dpa. The former head of Germany's domestic intelligence service founded his party after being asked to leave the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) because his views are considered too extreme for the CDU's centre-right stance. The party's name in German, WerteUnion, echoes the names of the parties in the mainstream cons...

A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the far-right founded a new right-wing party on Saturday, holding an inaugural party... -February 17, 2024 at 12:12 pm EST - MarketScreener

Thousands of people once again took to the streets across Germany to protest right-wing extremism on Saturday. According to the police, around 3,500 people took part in a demonstration in the western German city of Bochum which was dubbed "Bochum in solidarity - hand in hand against the right." In Bordesholm in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, some 2,500 people took to the streets to protest right-wing extremism. In the eastern city of Magdeburg, people demonstrated with banne...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A former German spy chief who was sacked after being accused of averting his eyes to the threat posed by the far-right founded a new right-wing party on Saturday, holding an inaugural party congress on a boat near Germany's old capital Bonn.