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According to the Euronews exclusive Superpoll, it is predicted that Germany will vote in favour of three parties: the CDU/CSU, the back bone of the European People's Party, the far-right AfD party, a component of the Identity and Democracy group, and the SPD, an associate of the Socialists and the Democrats group. The Superpoll predicts that the CDU/CSU (Centre-right Christian Democrats) has increased from 29 percent this March to 30.2 percent by late April 2024. It will come at the expense of the SPD, the party of the current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The centre-left SPD party are predic...
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French actor Omar Sy, the star of the hit Netflix series Lupin and recently appointed jury member at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has said France must rebuild a sense of the collective if it is to counter the far-right. Promoting his new book "Viens, on se parle", written with Elsa Vigoureux, Sy said the notions of justice, equality and fraternity had been shaken, and it was hard to be a Black person in France. The actor, 46, who grew up in the banlieue outside Paris with his parents from Mauritania and Senegal, cited the controversy surrounding the possible participation of Aya Nakamura,...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ’s centre-left Social Democrats, or SPD, launched their official campaign for the 9 June EU election with a rally in Hamburg, under the mantra "we need hope." Scholz tried to alleviate German voters' fears their country could be drawn into Ukraine's war with Russia if it's too proactive in its military support for the eastern European country. The chancellor reiterated Germany would continue to stand by Ukraine’s side under his leadership as the second-largest arms supplier after the US, but would avoid a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia. “To those who...
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Germany's far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party is under fire. On Wednesday, an advisor to the AfD's lead candidate in European elections Maximilian Krah was arrested and sacked for allegedly spying for the Chinese government. Krah has strongly denied being involved with the espionage, vowing to still stand in the upcoming European Parliament elections - just six weeks away. This is the second time in a month the anti-immigrant party has faced corruption allegations, with the AfD's second EU candidate Petr Bystron denying accusations he took €20,000 to spread Kremlin propaganda. "A...
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André Ventura, the leader of Portugal's far-right party is popping red balloons with darts, under a sign which reads "Socialism explodes in Portugal". He is celebrating the gains made by his political party “Chega” (“Enough" in Portuguese), at Futurallia, Portugal’s biggest student fair. Chega came third in the snap elections held in early March, surging from 12 to 50 seats. The rise of the far-right comes as the country marks 50 years since the right-wing military dictatorship led by Antonio Salazar was overthrown. A crowd of young people aged between 15 and 18 years old are cheering him on. ...
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This summer's European Parliament elections are a test for the radical right across the continent – but in Spain, the outcome could determine the future of the country's main far-right party, Vox. Despite the rise of the far right throughout Europe, Vox haemorrhaged 600,000 votes in Spain's last general election, and the country's mainstream right-wingers are trying to keep up the pressure. In Madrid, members of Spain's longstanding conservative Popular Party (PP) are conducting a membership drive, calling on voters to join the "Ayuso Team." The phrase refers to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, one of the P...
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When, in January, the EU Commission appointed German Christian Democrat MEP Markus Pieper for a new position as a small business envoy, it sparked an outcry. The reason: Markus Pieper scored worse than other candidates for the plum position with almost 19.000 euros per month. The recruitment drew accusations of cronyism, as Pieper belongs to the same political party as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Four fellow Commissioners protested in writing, and the European Parliament in a landslide vote asked von der Leyen to rescind the hire. This week, on what should have been his first da...
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An official from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has begun his trial for using a banned Nazi slogan. AfD regional branch manager Björn Höcke has been accused of using a banned Nazi slogan twice in the run- up to a regional election in which he is running to become the state governor of the eastern state of Thuringia. He is accused of ending a speech in Merseburg in May 2021 with the words "Alles für Deutschland", or "Everything for Germany". The phrase is banned in Germany as it was once a motto of the Sturmabteilung, the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi party that play...
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The highest court in Brussels has allowed of a gathering of far-right European nationalist politicians to continue for a second day, the conference's organisers say, after police tried to shut it down on Tuesday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, French far-right candidate Eric Zemmour, and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki were scheduled to speak at the two-day National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Brussels, which had struggled to find a venue in the Belgian capital willing to host it. During the first day of the event, Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage was speaking ...
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Belgian police moved in to close down a gathering of Europe's hard-right in Brussels on Tuesday, sparking chaos and confusion.
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