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1 – https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/is-germanys-afd-using-covid-19-measures-to-its-benefit/
2 – https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/victims-of-the-pandemic-european-farright-parties-and-covid19/638E1BEA8CF82CA068DBC46149BE9F42
3 – https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/selfproclaimed-defender-of-freedom-the-afd-and-the-pandemic/23F825A9D096CC5DD3C3B2142B582E3E
4 – https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/
5 – https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_100185524/afd-umfragehoch-cdu-generalsekretaer-czaja-macht-ampel-verantwortlich.html
6 – https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/06/15/why-the-afd-is-on-the-rise-again/
7 – https://newsrnd.com/news/2023-06-14-%22habeck-stopped%22–merz-celebrates-changes-in-the-heating-law.BkN8pA8D3.html
8 – https://www.europeforthemany.com/afd-briefing.pdf
9 – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/germany-enters-recession-europe-s-largest-economy-is-breaking-down

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04:16 AfD’s recent poll surge
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  1. @VM-is8by

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    This the beauty of islam, Due to the spread of peacefulness by Muslims even the most disillusioned commies will become as far right ,

  2. @jmum189

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    As a Brit we have the same problems here. Our leaders haven`t been acting in our best interests for decades. Good luck to Germany, you need to leave the EU too.

  3. @marcelvanderwal4060

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Germany for Germans!! Take your country back, when Germany rise, the rest will follow…make Europe great again..

  4. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Bom trabalho a todos!

  5. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    MA/AM ✒🇩🇪

  6. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Coloquem outro nome e abra operacao ja

  7. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Cola e copia as lojas de conveniencia AM/ PM

  8. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    14 a 24

  9. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Ok 14 e Menor Aprendiz , MA e AM ,

  10. @lucianasalles7272

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Esta sendo operacionalizado no AM?

  11. @tendaimukau3478

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    While I appreciate that this channel avoids sensationalising and politicising these issues like DW does, it really needs to proofread & check its graphics on German topics. These frequent errors like "Saxony-Anholt" or referring to the wrong federal state distract from the information and the credibility of the content.

  12. @MidnightRambler

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Because the left wing are a disaster

  13. @dirgsuite5546

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Why has the right wing afd become so popular? Because German leaders denied German cities and industries affordable energy. They prioritized Ukrainian proxy war over taking care of their citizens. It is a perfect recipe to empower extreme right.

  14. @komischneee8238

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Well the AFD has only gotten popular because the other parties suck and prioritize migrants over the actual German people

  15. @4666hero

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    They are partially or fully funded by Zionist Jewish charities, ops!

  16. @lottewied1937

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Yes, the AFD wants to undo all the wrongs Angela Merkel did.

  17. @thepbpieguy

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Hello my fellow german AFD patriots, we stand with you here in the states, against the destruction of your beutiful homeland, from both bad policies and loss of cultural identity. I, as a member of the U.S. conservative (republican) party, have indured verbal insults and cast aspersions for my beliefs for years, as it is standard practice of the (socialist) Democrat party as well as most of our media outlets, trying to use shamming tactics, using words like racist, far right, Oh, and of course "MAGA" is the latest. We as conservatives know who we are, and its not racist, neither far right, but they do have us on MAGA, but,we are prowd that. So, when labels are used, remember who you are, and that they are scarred, scarred of contrast and better policies, policies that will ultimatly change other minds to your way of thinking and thats thier ultimate fear. Remember, the word extremist loses its power the more its cast upon you, So were their insults like a badge of honor….

  18. @dlyrious13

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    One thing to remember is that the right wing of politics is a completely legitimate part of the political spectrum and NOT extremist. There cannot be a left without a right and vice versa. In the past, most parties have leaned so far left, that a part of our identity was missing. The conservative side. This balance is needed and is being restored at this moment. This is a good thing.
    Most media try to immediately lean towards claiming this to be Nationalsocialism (Nazis) but its not. At least not at the approximately 30% population currently in favor of the new party.
    In general, there is traces of old ideologies in each and every party, e.g. the CDU/CSU as well. These people are not in leading positions and wont dictate direction in any case, neither in the AFD nor in CDU or SPD.

    Our current government was elected despite being unqualified AND with legal cases against them. This is something completely unfathomable which can only be explained with massive amounts of dumbing down the population as well as migrants with voting rights hoping to keep the borders open for further migration of like minded people until a tipping point was reached which prevents this to be reversed. Here is where the migration problem unfolds!
    We have already seen where this will lead with massive amounts of migrants calling out for a Sharia law based Khalifat needed in Germany.
    Interestingly this is the exact opposite of the lefts agenda meaning they are being used to establish a political force entirely outside the german political spectrum which is entirely based on religious ideas, something western societies have moved on from long ago. This is dangerous and needs to be stopped.

    Like most left agendas going full circle this will also come back to haunt them at some point. (e.g. womens rights and benefits being contradicted by trans rights and benefits which effectively can lower the female quotes and lead to men in womens clothes again dominating natural women).
    In this case it will leave a lasting effect that is undesirable.

  19. @manroe2315

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Look what happened to EU countries after they accept Asylum Seeker, Illegal Immigrants. They don't respect your cultural, They bring their Cultural, Religion and so on to European

  20. @user-cg3uz5mp4l

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    People have had it with that globalist shit that’s why 🤷‍♂️😎

  21. @faceluckcell9484

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    " they call out thing s "

  22. @xxdomixx1085

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    I have a migration background and I am a member of the AfD. My parents came from Eastern Europe and built up their life in Germany, all by themselves. Me and my sister went to school and now I am in nursing-education while my sister is in becoming a physiotherapist.
    We do NOT want to pay for the illegal bad behaving muslims.
    And the AfD does not hate all non-ethnicallly Germans. In my city there are a few Chinese-origin German citizens members of the party and everything is great. They also saw the problem with the muslim immigration.

  23. @Vikingshop

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    ONLY FASCISTS call mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers who protest that the Natives are being replaced by foreign people, through mass-immigration, "right-wing" !

  24. @XYZszikh

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Das ist kein Rassismus es ist die abartige Kriminalität die es in Deutschland derzeit gibt durch die Asylanten. Zudem besteht die AfD in vielen Teilen aus ehemaligen konservative CDU wählern gemacht weil die Nitte ummer mehr nach links gerückt ist.

  25. @arkadyuti2667

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    The problem is only Islam

  26. @juztnlast953

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    the AfD is a very well named party. The name doesn't tie it to any specific political position, so it has flexibility in its platform. The word "Alternative" does suggest to voters they are the party to look to when unhappy with the status quo.

  27. @peterschoen7409

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    America has an issue far right issues and so does Germany but here in UK it hasn't got of the ground

  28. @capri2673

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    "Why has the Right-Wing AfD become so Popular in Germany?" – You damn well know why!

  29. @magtfulde898

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    7:40 cue "Race accross Europe", next shot, first thing you see, a black muslim woman with luggage in the metro… vote AfD

  30. @thomaskaminski5611

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    The neo-fascist push is driven by the Putin-loving, German-speaking Russians from the former Sovjet sattelite 'GDR'. It is a failure of the GFR to properly re-integrate the Eastern states into a democratic system.

  31. @franktielemans6624

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    In uncertain times fascism flourishes, in the 1930's the trigger was the 1929 Wall Street crash that brought the fascists to power. Before 1929 the nazi party only got 2.3% of the votes. After blue monday thay got 37%. People became uncertain about the future, the nazi's cultivates their fears, identify scapegoats (minorities offcourse) and present themselves as the only ones who can fix all their problems. It is also no coincidence that LGBTQ and "woke" is being demonized now. Exactly the same thing happened 90 years ago. First we had the roaring twenties with free expression especially in Berlin… and then the Nazis came.

    Exactly the same thing happens now.
    Replace Blue Monday with the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine and you create the perfect breeding ground for extremists. The only difference is that Goebels had to use the radio and the podium, nowadays fascists can spread hate propaganda at light speed via social media and spreading conspiracies en lies was easier than ever before. Truth doesn't even matter anymore. We live in the post-truth era that someone like Tymothy Snyder already warned us about in early 2017.

    Anyway, as a European I know when German fascism gain popularity it is time to arm yourself once again and that's exactly what I and my family did almost a year ago.

  32. @rodrigoribeiro387

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Afd now!!! Germany only for germanic glamorous and brave people!

  33. @TheRagingPlatypus

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Thuringia is pronouned Tur-ing-ee-ah or Tur-ih-gen in German. Similar to Neanderthal being Nee-an-der-tal.

  34. @boazklum

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Just an idea: Koln New Year’s Eve 2014/15 has left some bad memories????

  35. @yatinhu1153

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    If the same parties over and over acknowledge that this influx of migrants and integration was a big failure, yet do nothing about it, It'll obviously give way to more intense feelings.

  36. @SKY_FATH3R

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Das Farbigen werden uns nicht ersetzen!

  37. @deniseg-hill1730

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Anyone who Is not left is labelled as far right. We are not far right we believe in looking after our own country and citizens first

  38. @MAN-MILK

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    AfD/CSU coalition NOW!

  39. @gaborsiegl

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    not just in Germany popular is AfD but also many other countries as well 😉

  40. @IDONTHAVEANYNAMES

    February 10, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    ☪️🤮

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German GDP data 2019-2025
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/10/23/germanys-much-ballyhooed-autumn-of-reforms-is-a-damp-squib

Germany polls
https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/08/31/how-the-alternative-for-germany-would-govern

Revised destatis data
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economy/National-Accounts-Domestic-Product/_node.html
https://substack.com/home/post/p-211829645

IMF estimates for GDP growth in 2026
https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/EU/EURO/EUQ/IDN

Ifo institute data
https://www.ifo.de/en/facts/2026-06-18/ifo-economic-forecast-summer-2026-energy-price-increase-acting-brake-fiscal-policy
https://www.ifo.de/en/survey-results

Germany trade data
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/deu/germany/trade-balance-deficit
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/exports-to-china
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/DEU/Year/LTST/Summarytext
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/exports

Indices
https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/german-manufacturing-growth-accelerates-august-orders-surge-pmi-shows
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/manufacturing-pmi
https://www.ifo.de/en/survey-results

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https://www.dw.com/en/icelands-eu-vote-a-nation-divided-over-europe/a-78285133
https://www.reuters.com/world/narrow-majority-icelanders-back-eu-membership-talks-poll-shows-ahead-referendum-2026-08-26/
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-01-09-poll-majority-support-eu-negotiations-432591
https://nordics.info/show/artikel/icelands-relationship-with-the-eu
https://www.idea.int/democracytracker/country/iceland
https://newunionpost.eu/2026/02/26/iceland-referendum-eu-accession-talks/#:~:text=hold%20a%20referendum%20on%20reopening%20Iceland%E2%80%99s%20EU%20accession%20talks
https://cb.is/news-and-publications/article/monetary-bulletin-2026-3
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/iceland-hikes-key-rate-to-8-to-lower-risk-of-prices-spiraling
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/iceland-eu-referendum-3fqw92st9
https://thefishingdaily.com/icelandic-fishing-industry-news/icelandic-fishing-industry-points-to-ireland-in-eu-warning/
https://www.reuters.com/world/fish-ships-sovereignty-iceland-weighs-its-european-future-2026-08-19/#:~:text=defined%20Iceland’s%20independence%20since%20it%20broke%20away%20from%20Denmark
https://island-esb.is/en/kostnadur/
https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-08-29-iceland-rejects-eu-accession-talks-485377

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https://www.ft.com/content/7ced71c2-03b8-4569-a68d-14624a7e83f2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.ft.com/content/e3b5c236-bd5f-45c2-8ddf-5279a7375d3f?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/25/us/trump-news-tariffs
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/25/us-canadian-trade-war-political-will-01048491
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/wednesday-briefing-how-canada-has-turned-a-trade-dispute-into-a-defence-of-its-sovereignty
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/08/22/prime-minister-carney-delivers-remarks-canada-us-trade-negotiations
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Europe’s response
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https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-mark-carney-to-attend-eus-state-of-the-union-ursula-von-der-leyen/
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/25/canada-walked-away-from-trump-could-the-eu-ever-do-the-same
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Canada–EU relations
https://international.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/corporate/reports/chief-economist/annual/2025
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-pact-defense-eu-mark-carney-partnership/
https://youtu.be/GxWtq2ZLfgs?si=_zmZ-0_vtF7EhZrk

Canadian polling on joining the EU
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https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Canadians__Opinions_on_Politics_poll_results_syetMgu.pdf#page=3
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https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/24/icelands-moment-of-reckoning-what-the-referendum-means-for-the-eu 
https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/eu-enlargement_en 
https://readinessindex.eu/ 
https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/countries/kosovo_en 
https://readinessindex.eu/#/country/kosovo 
https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/08/17/erdogan-says-eu-membership-is-not-a-priority-for-turkey/ 
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/delegations/en/joint-statement-on-the-georgian-governme/product-details/20241129DPU39689 
https://euneighbourseast.eu/news/latest-news/european-commission-says-georgia-a-candidate-country-in-name-only/ 
https://www.euinsider.eu/news/epic-enlargement-bosnia-collapse-2026 
https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-european-parliament-bill-north-macedonia-eu-accession-green-austria-waitz-lobby-vote-smear-campaign/ 
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/08/eight-member-states-oppose-the-opening-of-serbias-next-eu-accession-cluster 
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/08/13/might-moldova-merge-with-romania 
https://english.nv.ua/nation/hungary-again-blocks-two-clusters-in-ukraine-s-eu-accession-talks-50628208.html
https://www.clingendael.org/publication/albanias-eu-accession-sprint-balancing-momentum-reform-and-eu-scrutiny 
https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief/2026/08/22/03a85e89-8de5-405b-a27c-5c6763fd0ad8 
https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/countries/montenegro_en 
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https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/24/icelands-moment-of-reckoning-what-the-referendum-means-for-the-eu 
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In this video, we’re going to explain Liechtenstein’s unique political setup, and how the push to decriminalise abortion could trigger a constitutional crisis in the country.

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Liechtenstein’s ‘dualistic’ state:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/01/30/the-curious-case-of-liechtenstein/

Liechtenstein’s constitution:
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Liechtenstein_2011

Recurring tension over royal power:
https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/centenary-constitution-liechtenstein/2021/12/14/monarchy-and-direct-democracy-in-liechtenstein-an-impossible-combination

Examples of princely family threatening to leave:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1713201.stm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/liechtenstein/9366747/Prince-of-Liechtenstein-threatens-to-leave-after-vote-on-his-powers.html

2003 constitutional referendum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Liechtenstein_constitutional_referendum

2011 abortion referendum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Liechtenstein_referendums

2012 constitutional referendum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Liechtenstein_constitutional_referendum

Alois’ veto threat helped scupper 2011 abortion referendum:
https://verfassungsblog.de/small-country-big-hurdles/

2026 abortion decriminalisation initiative:
https://www.fristenlösung.li/initiative

Initiative received second-highest number of signatures:
https://landesspiegel.li/2026/07/fristenloesung-initiative-will-heute-4970-unterschriften-einreichen/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/liechtenstein-abortion-law-modernised-prince-alois

Polling shows support for abortion decriminalisation initiative:
https://x.com/EuropeElects/status/2088323436913271216

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