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At Aquinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, September 2nd, and this is your

F.T. News briefing. Germany's far right wins a regional election for the first time in post-war history.

There's a lot of anger in these elections and so there's a real question over how that spills over into other states.

A national strike kicks off in Israel,

and in the US greedflation has become a campaign issue.

I'm Josh Gavr DuPont-Woyen, and here's the news you need to start your day. Alternative for Germany, or AFD made some serious inroads in state elections held on Sunday.

It's the first far right party to win a regional election in Germany since the Second World War.

At the time of recording this podcast, exit polls suggested that the AFD had won just

over a third of the vote chair in the state of Tarringia.

Elections were also being held in Saxony where the center-right Christian Democratic Union

held just a narrow lead over the AFD.

Here to discuss the results is Sam Jones, the F.T's Berlin correspondent.

Hi Sam. Hi, Berlin correspondent. Hi Sam.

Hi there.

So for listeners who might not be familiar with Germany's far right party,

what's been the story over the last few months, the last year,

how much support has the party been able to rally?

So, alternative for Deutschland, AFD, is a party that kind of morphed over time.

It initially started as a kind of Eurosceptic, financially liberal party that has gradually radicalised and in the last three or four years

particularly since the pandemic its politics have become much more hardline.

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