A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe
In Germany, the AfD are weaponising climate change
A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of a rising hard right. In Germany the overtly xenophobic Alternative for Germany (afd) has surged to become the country’s second-most popular party. Its success is polarising domestic politics and it seems poised to triumph in state elections in the east next year. In Poland the ruling Law and Justice party is leading the polls ahead of a general election on October 15th, and it is being drawn further to the right by an extreme new party, Confederation.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The real threat from Europe’s hard right”
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