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The German Far Right Doesn’t Need to Win Elections to Be Dangerous An Alternative for Germany (AfD) gathering in 2013 in Cologne, Germany. (Strassenstriche, https://tinyurl.com/uy7xrzak; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) On March 3, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency placed the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) under observation as a suspected far-right extremist organization. This move is only the latest step in a two-year process of increasing government scrutiny of the AfD’s activities. In January 2019, Germany’s domestic intelligence ag...

Warsaw’s sanctions against Russian journalists violate EU legislation, Zakharova says Earlier, the Polish Office for Foreigners, under the request of the Military Counterintelligence Service, included Russian journalist, VGTRK special reporter Yevgeny Reshetnev to the list of undesired people © Roman Kanacshuk/TASS MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Polish authorities’ decision to bar entry for Russian journalist Yevgeniy Reshetnev violates the EU Schengen legislation in favor of Warsaw’s Russophobic sentiments, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement Tuesd...

German state police declared free of far-right networks After an uproar over the presence of far-right sympathizers in the German police, the country's most-populous state has said it found some officers tied to far-right groups but no networks of extremists among the force. German NRW state police have been declared free of major far-right tendencies Conspiratorial, action-focused far-right networks were "not detectable" among police in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), according to a state Interior Ministry report. Only in a few cases, flagged last year, was there a...

Swiss voters have accepted a far-right proposal to ban facial coverings as they took to the polls on Sunday (7 March) in a binding referendum viewed as a test of attitudes toward Muslims, writes Michael Shields. The proposal under the Swiss system of direct democracy does not mention Islam directly and also aims to stop […]

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