The premier of Germany's Thuringia state stepped down and called for snap elections Thursday, barely 24 hours after he was elected with the help of far-right AfD lawmakers in a vote Angela Merkel ...

A spokesperson for North Ayrshire Council confirmed to BBC Scotland News that Viernau - in the state of Thuringia in the eastern part of Germany - had not been added to the local authority's usual ...

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office ...

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For example, Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony have designated the day as one of "liberation from National Socialism". Esther Bejarano, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, launched a petition in 2020 for ...

But the Blue Party failed to take off, and was dissolved in 2019 after it failed to win a meaningful amount of votes in state elections in Thuringia and Saxony. Following that failure, Petry had ...

The company has already achieved mass production of lithium-ion battery cells at its plant in Thuringia, Germany, and is moving ahead with the construction of a plant in Hungary. Last December, CATL ...

The party has frequently triggered uproar in Germany. One of its most prominent faces, the party's leader in Thuringia state, Bjoern Hoecke, has twice been convicted for using a banned Nazi slogan ...

Specifically, the party’s state branches in Saxony, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt were all officially declared ‘unconstitutional’ by the authority. In my opinion, the AfD’s state chapter ...

The BfV had already classified regional branches in Saxony and Thuringia as extremist. But this is the first time the national party as a whole has received this status. The classification allows ...

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