Alternative for Germany
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Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, Afd), are a ‘fast-growing’ Eurosceptic party.
According to The Independent, one AfD leader, Alexander Gauland, declared the party ‘the natural allies' of the anti-Islam PEGIDA (Patriot Eruropean Against Islamisation of the West) movement and said he would attend a demonstration in December 2014[1]
Another media outlet has suggested that AfD had 'faced internal division after some of its members made overtures to PEGIDA'.[2]
Affiliations
Resources
- Philipp Wittrock, The Know-It-All Party: Anti-Euro 'Alternative for Germany' Launches, Spiegel Online International, 12 April 2013,
- Harriet Alexander, and Jeevan Vasagar, Bernd Lucke interview: 'Why Germany has had enough of the euro', The Telegraph, 7 April 2013</ref>
- Nicholas Kulish and Melissa Eddy, German Elites Drawn to Anti-Euro Party, Spelling Trouble for Merkel, New York Times, 14 April 2013.
Notes
- ↑ Adam Withnall, Germany sees 'visible rise' in support for far-right extremism in response to perceived 'Islamisation' of the West, The Independent, 15 December 2014, accessed 5 Jan 2015
- ↑ PEGIDA leader Kathrin Oertel resigns one week after founder quits, CBC/Reuters, 28 January, accessed 2 February
