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- 1AfD's Maximilian Krah: human rights 'just a pretext'▼Human rights are just a pretext! - Dr. Maximilian Krah - AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag
Dr. Maximilian Krah, an AfD member of the German Bundestag, has drawn attention with remarks arguing that human rights serve merely as a pretext. His statement, circulated via the AfD parliamentary group, has sparked strong reactions in Germany, where critics see it as part of the party's broader challenge to liberal democratic norms and international rights frameworks.
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Germany's SPD is fighting on two fronts: new YouGov polling shows the AfD remaining the strongest force in the Sunday question, with the Union ten points behind, while the party defends itself against Union accusations of blocking the government's agenda. SPD leaders are also pushing to include civil servants in pension contributions. Some commentators ask whether Chancellor Merz might ultimately push the SPD out of government.
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The Schleswig-Holstein city of Neumünster is drawing attention with a string of local stories. Police are searching for a courier after an elderly woman lost a five-figure sum to fraudsters, while a series of break-ins hit a fire station, a pharmacy and a club house in the Wittorf district. A football match between Türkspor Neumünster and SV Todesfelde III was abandoned amid threats to a referee. An AfD demonstration, a confusing emergency alert about a phone outage and plans to spruce up the Großflecken shopping street round out the busy local news agenda.
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Reports from German media and French outlets describe members of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) expressing irredentist ambitions to reclaim Alsace and Moselle for Germany. French media, including Marianne and Le HuffPost, have picked up the story, warning of a far-right fantasy of recovering Alsace-Lorraine and recalling the region's contested history between the two countries.
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Searches for Karin Prien, the German CDU politician and education policymaker, are rising in Germany. The surrounding discussion is dominated by CDU figures distancing the party from the AfD, with CDU state deputy Tullner insisting the party is 'no AfD auxiliary troop'. Commentators are weighing the CDU's positioning toward or against the far right, and Prien's role in that debate is being closely watched.
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Dortmund's tax office has demanded 780 euros from Romy Wolff, 43, after she posted a photo of her dog Idefix, according to Ruhr Nachrichten. Elsewhere in Germany, attention is on a dog that took centre stage during Scotland's Nations League appearance, while debate continues over an RTL commentator who insulted an AfD politician on air and later walked back his remarks.
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Unemployment is back in the German news. New figures from the Bundesagentur für Arbeit show demand for workers remaining at a low level, while the number of jobless has slipped slightly in some regions, such as Meinerzhagen with 737 unemployed. Attention is also on the 1.4 million people who have been receiving Bürgergeld for at least five years, prompting the AfD to call for a 'Bürgerarbeit' work requirement.
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The Ukrainian 'Myrotvorets' (Peacemaker) database, which lists people it deems enemies of Ukraine, has added two Alternative for Germany members of the European Parliament. The site publishes personal data and accusations against politicians, officials and public figures it considers pro-Russian. Listings of serving EU parliamentarians are drawing attention to the database's reach into European politics and to tensions around the AfD's stance on Russia.