With their anti-migrant tirades, the establishment parties are pursuing two goals: two goals: dividing the working class and building a police state.
The protests took place while AfD was opening its election campaign in the central city of Halle on Saturday. View on euronews
Berlin blames Bavaria. Bavaria blames Berlin. With migrants suspected in several deadly attacks, German politicians are jostling for position with calls to reform migration ahead of February's federal election.
Germany's opposition leader says his party will bring motions to toughen migration policy to parliament next week in one of its last sessions before the country's election.
Germany's opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner.
The demonstrators carried banners and chanted slogans such as “We are the firewall!”, “All together against fascism!” and “Never again is now”. A broad alliance of parties, religious communities, unions, clubs and groups such as “Fridays for Future” and the “Parents against the Right” initiative participated.
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of Germans on Saturday protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of a Feb. 23 general election.
Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of the Feb. 23 election
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the growing influence of Germany's far right at a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Saturday evening. The protesters used lamps and their mobile phones to form what organizers described as a "sea of lights" directed against the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
A memorial service has commenced in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg four days after an attack there resulted in two deaths. "Today we are full of sorrow," Aschaffenburg parish priest, Martin Heim,
Police detain a 28-year-old Afghan after the attack in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg.