The far-right is on the rise in Germany, but could it go mainstream across Europe?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Alternative for Germany Party, Germany’s main far-right party, now attracts a third of voters in the east of the country and the nation is home to over 38,000 registered right-wing extremists.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Siobhan Robbins, Sky’s Europe Correspondent who has spoken to members as well as victims of the far-right in Germany. We also hear from Julia Ebner, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author of Going Mainstream, on how far-right ideas seep into mainstream politics.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Assisitant podcast producer: Amy Lakin
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Adam Jay
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| 1:00.5 | Germany. |
| 1:01.4 | Now, there is a place that has long had a problem with the far right. |
| 1:05.1 | And a new report from the country's equivalent of MI5 |
| 1:08.1 | has discovered that right-wing extremism is the greatest threat to German democracy. |
| 1:13.7 | It also identified as many as 14,000 violent right-wing extremists living there. |
| 1:20.3 | Now, you may recall that late last year, 25 people were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. |
| 1:26.0 | The majority of them were members of something |
| 1:28.3 | known as the Reichberger movement, those who reject the authority and legitimacy of the German |
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