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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday voiced concern over the rise of extreme-right tendencies in his country 79 years after the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated. "New reports are emerging all the time: about neo-Nazis and their dark networks," the Social Democrat said in a recorded video speech commemorating the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. "At the same time, right-wing populists are gaining ground, fuelling fear and sowing hatred," Scholz said, adding that this should not be accepted.

Germany's Constitutional Court has delivered a landmark ruling that strips the far-right party Die Heimat, formerly known as the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), of state financing and tax relief for a period of six years, setting a precedent for dealing with anti-constitutional parties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8yp-9Csn4 The court's decision found that Die Heimat's policies and…

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The growing calls from German establishment party officials to ban the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) aka Alternative for Germany, are Orwellian, international relations and security expert Mark Sleboda told Radio Sputnik.

Germany's highest court has ruled that a small far-right party will be denied funding for the next six years after deeming the group's values unconstitutional.