The far-right Alternative for Germany party appears to be having a pretty good year, raising concerns in the nation and across much of Europe, according to German political experts at a recent campus event.
Classified as a right-wing extremist movement by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (a designation put on hold by a court), the AfD has largely been ostracized by other parties who refuse to include the group’s politicians in governing coalitions.
But as the fastest-growing party in Germany, the AfD is gaining power.
In October elections, Saxony-Anhalt, one of the nation’s 16 states, elected an AfD speaker to a
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