The #AfD’s leadership is highly fragmented. Regional figures play an important role for the ideology and image of the party. The national executive has not one, but two party chairs. While Frauke Petry is the more prominent and visibly radical of the two, co-leader Jörg Meuthen, an academic economist, has long refused to be sidelined…
A friendly chat with AFP became part of their story on the fallout from the Berlin election. Incidentally, the text was widely cross-published in Asia, and so I’m becoming a household name in Vietnam, China, and Pakistan 🙂 [contentcards url="https://www.yahoo.com/news/merkel-party-loses-ground-populist-afd-gains-berlin-161629578.html"]
The good folks over at CEMES are running a lecture series on the “New Political Right in Continental Europe“. What’s even better: they have kindly invited me to talk about Germany. Here is the abstract of my presentation: For decades, Germany has been a tough ground for the Radical Right. Support for right-wing parties such…
Handelsblatt Global has a piece on the upcoming state election in Berlin. I try to evaluate the consequences of the likely result for federal politics. [contentcards url="https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/merkel-faces-another-bruising-vote-608508"]
The result of yesterday’s regional election in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (aka Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the initiated or Meck-Pomm for the impatient) was not a surprise, but still a shock to many. I wrote a short article for the LSE’s EUROPP blog. Angela Merkel’s CDU came third behind the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the German Social Democrats…
In a press statement this morning, the AfD’s deputy leader Alexander Gauland (who is also head of the party’s chapter and the parliamentary party in the Eastern state of Brandenburg) has demanded a (temporary) ban on Muslims seeking refuge in Germany “until all asylum seekers in Germany have been registered, checked upon, and have their…
Das Handelsblatt hat ein langes Stück zur Reaktion der AfD auf das Brexit-Referendum. Mit dabei: Meine Argumente dafür, daß das Referendum der AfD nicht nutzt. [contentcards url="http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/brexit-referendum/brexit-news/alternative-fuer-deutschland-brexit-chaos-in-der-afd/13792100.html"]
Das Handelsblatt berichtet ausführlich über die aktuellen Landtagswahlen. Ich sage ein paar Worte zum Ergebnis in Rheinland-Pfalz [contentcards url="http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/landtagswahlen-2016/afd-bei-den-landtagswahlen-die-gruenen-profitieren-am-staerksten/13322978-2.html"]
[contentcards url="http://www.huffingtonpost.de/2016/03/13/afd-landtagswahl-_n_9452930.html"] Direkt nach der Landtagswahl habe ich mit der Huffington Post über die Zukunft der AfD gesprochen. Die Überschrift ist etwas reißerisch, die Zitate sind echt 🙂
Mit dem Trierischen Volksfreund habe ich aus Anlaß der Landtagswahl über die AfD in Rheinland-Pfalz gesprochen und die Unterschiede zwischen den Landesverbänden gesprochen. Der Artikel steht hier: [contentcards url="http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/rheinlandpfalz/rheinlandpfalz/landtagswahl+2016./RLP-und-Nachbarn-Wie-Parteimitglieder-Forscher-und-Kritiker-die-AfD-in-Rheinland-Pfalz-einschaetzen-Widersprueche-bleiben;art806,4450079"]