Friedrich Merz
Counter-Currents
Tag: AfD
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Within political parties, we have a tendency to assume that most people who share a party have essentially the same values, but upon closer inspection, we find that this is often not the case. Chuck Schumer has major differences with AOC, Donald Trump has major differences with Thomas Massie, etc. (more…)
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Every country, I suspect, has its classic films that you watch on special holidays. In Germany, one of them is Dinner for One, shown on New Year’s Eve. (more…)
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Perhaps you know the saying: Pessimists always claim to be realists. Well, in my experience, pessimism more often than not is realism. (more…)
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National Rally’s leader Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on election night. (Image source: Marine Le Pen’s Facebook wall)
National Rally’s leader Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on election night. (Image source: Marine Le Pen’s Facebook wall)
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The European Union Parliament elections have come and gone. While some results were being finalized just this morning, the dust has settled more or less and we can take stock of what occurred.
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We’ll start with what is arguably the most momentous election result. In France, National Rally, of which Marine Le Pen is a member and which is now led by the handsome and charismatic Jordan Bardella, won 31% of the votes and gained 12 seats in the EU Parliament. (more…)
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The CSU/CDU alliance, of which European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen is a prominent member, handily dominated the EU elections in Germany. (Image source: The European Parliament’s Flickr page.)
The CSU/CDU alliance, of which European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen is a prominent member, handily dominated the EU elections in Germany. (Image source: The European Parliament’s Flickr page.)
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As we use to say around here, after the famous book title: Im Westen nichts Neues. That’s “Nothing new to report from the West,” but you might know it as All Quiet on the Western Front. (Whoever thought that this was a fitting translation?)
It’s not that there’s nothing new to report, but it’s mainly unspectacular. Everything went exactly as expected with the European Union elections. The only big surprise was Macron’s decision to hold new national elections in France as a result of the voters’ obvious disapproval of the current government’s politics. You have to give it to the French: They don’t do anything by halves. (more…)
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3,598 wordsThe following interview with occasional Counter-Currents contributor Martin Lichtmesz was published in Hungarian by the news portal Magyar Jelen on March 2, 2024.
Could you introduce yourself and describe the scope of your activities?
I was born in Vienna in 1976, lived for 14 years in Berlin, and returned to my home country of Austria a decade ago. (more…)
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An anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month.
An anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month.
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It’s 2016-2020 all over again, it would seem. Those were the years when the German mainstream media did not go one day without publishing at least one headline telling us how dumb, dangerous, and insane Donald Trump was. (more…)
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From Martin Sellner’s (left) English-language Telegram channel.
From Martin Sellner’s (left) English-language Telegram channel.
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Left-wing German media outlet Correctiv reported on January 12 about a private meeting that happened last November in Potsdam, Germany between prominent figures in Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a rapidly growing Right-wing populist party that is now the second strongest-polling party in Germany, and Austrian identitarian leader Martin Sellner. The topic of the meeting: remigration. (more…)
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5,371 wordsDietmar Friedhoff
Denken wir Afrika: Eine konservative Grundsatz-Strategie zur Selbstentwicklung unseres Nachbarkontinents
Bad Schussenried: Gerhard Hess Verlag, 2021A canny financier in the British situation comedy series Only Fools and Horses proposes a new investment future: “Get your hands round this” he exclaims, then pauses dramatically and utters one word: “Africa.” (more…)
