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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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The support for far-right and conservative parties appears unrestrained in countries once known as the Inner Six – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands – which first established the European Communities in the 1950s. This was the most striking figure to emerge from Euronews’ unprecedented survey based on 26,000 interviews (10,000 of these from the Inner Six countries) in countries representing 96% of the bloc’s population. As the EU's beating heart, interest in what’s happening in the Inner Six has always been considered vital to check the pulse of the Union. But a ...
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Following the news has become a painful experience for progressives in Europe. Ukraine is stuttering in its war with Russia. Donald Trump appears to be on his way back to the White House. And anti-European parties are performing well in opinion polls ahead of this year’s European Parliament elections — which are now just 80 days away. European citizens cannot do much to influence the result of the presidential election in the US, or developments on the battlefield in Ukraine. Still, June’s elections across the EU-27 offer a rare opportunity for them to have an impact. The main question is whet...
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Polls have officially opened on Sunday in Portugal’s general election with mainstream moderates trying to keep a populist party at bay. The election, with 10.8 million registered voters, is set against a backdrop of corruption and economic hardship that have eroded faith in moderate mainstream parties and could push a significant number of voters into the arms of a radical right populist party. A slew of recent corruption scandals has tarnished the two parties that have alternated in power for decades — the centre-left Socialist Party and the centre-right Social Democratic Party, which is runn...
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