Germany

The German Union parties (CDU/CSU) are again considering backing an initiative by the left-globalist ‘traffic light’ coalition to amend Germany’s constitution in an attempt to keep the anti-establishment Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party from influencing the Federal Constitutional Court.

Negotiations between the Union and the governing parties concerning the latter’s proposed draft law—framed as necessary to ‘protect’ the court from ‘extremists’—began in late January but concluded shortly thereafter when the CDU and CSU stated that they found no compelling reason for the constitutional amendment.

Former Stasi memorial chief says the case is reminiscent of “East Germany when pacifist patches or a plastic bag from the West led to interrogation.”

In service of Germany’s increasingly anti-pluralistic state apparatus, the country’s mainstream press is striving to justify the state’s political intimidation of Loretta, a 16-year-old student who recently was removed from class and questioned by police for expressing support for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and posting right-wing content online.

This week, in the wake of widespread indignation sparked by an interview with Loretta and her mother where the two discussed the incident at the 16-year-old’s high school in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Die Welt published an article with the police description of screenshots from social media that instigated the police operation.

A court in Germany is set to rule this week on whether the anti-globalist, anti-immigration party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) can be designated as a suspected extremist organisation, in what is seen as another attempt to delegitimise the party which is riding high in the polls amid voter disenchantment with the policies of the left-liberal coalition government.

With past and ongoing attempts by Germany’s political establishment to diminish the support base of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) having failed, Germany’s highly politicized domestic intelligence agency is stepping up its efforts to deal a death blow to the country’s second-largest party.

Plans to stamp the entire AfD party with the ‘extremist’ label come ahead of critical elections in East Germany and at the European level, where the AfD is poised to place first—by a large margin—in Saxony, Brandenburg, and Thuringia, and second in EU parliamentary elections.

Anna Leisten is cheerful, young and radical. That’s how she appears in the many images she’s posted on Instagram, at least.

She’s one of the best-known faces of Germany’s Junge Alternative (JA), or Young Alternative, the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Her social media profile says she can be anything “from a braid-wearing sweetie pie to a forged-iron soldier.”