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Zur Absage der gesamten EU-Delegation führte die geplante Teilnahme des AfD-MEP Hans Neuhoff an einer Reise in die Ukraine. Wegen Sicherheitsbedenken gegenüber Neuhoff, der sich in der Vergangenheit deutlich pro-russisch geäußert hatte, sagten die …

Noch nicht genug gelesen zu den europäischen Rechtsparteien? Offline und analog gibt es alle paar Jahre neue Publikationen aus den parteinahen Stiftungen zum Thema, dieses Jahr bereits zwei! Grund genug, darauf einen kurzen Blick zu werfen. Eine aktuelle …

In Italy, too, the fascist past is not yet over. There is a new scandal involving the youth wing of the ruling Fratelli d'Italia (FdI - Brothers of Italy) party led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. On the anniversary of the fascist march on Rome (October …

At the Party of European Socialists (PES) congress in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in October, the Slovakian Smer party was unanimously expelled. This had been expected in advance (we reported on this in Newsletter #10). The membership of Prime Minister Robert …

Foreign policy often serves only to generate attention at home. This is currently demonstrated by the AfD with its various trips to the US (we reported on this in our newsletter #10). The trip by Beatrix von Storch and Joachim Paul (member of the …

At a round table conference on Central America entitled “Civil society responses to the return of authoritarianism ”, representatives from various organizations and movements from Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Germany, and other …

Rodrigo Paz Pereira, candidate of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), was elected president of Bolivia on October 19 with just over 54 percent of the vote, after defeating Jorge Tuto Quiroga, leader of the right-wing Libre coalition, in the runoff election. …

Elections are also being held in Chile. Presidential and congressional elections will take place on November 16. Jeannette Jara, the Communist Party (PC) candidate running for a left-wing electoral alliance, could win 30 percent of the vote in the first …

Elections will be held in Honduras on November 30: 128 members of Congress, 20 members of Parliament, and a new president will be elected. The current Minister of Defense, Rixi Moncada, is running for the left-wing government under Xiomara Castro (LIBRE). Her …

In Spain, the Franco Foundation is to be dissolved. This was reported by Spanish media following a government decision at the end of October. According to reports, the Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco has received a notification from the Ministry of …

Ecuador has endured weeks of strikes and violent repression. In mid-September, following the cancellation of diesel subsidies, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) called for a general strike, and other grassroots organizations …

The executive committees of the International Parliamentary Groups (PG) in the German Bundestag in this 21st legislative period can now be found online here, but not the respective members – and in popular groups, there can be several dozen of them. …

The AfD attracted considerable attention by inviting Professor Andrzej Nowak to a discussion event in the German Bundestag at the beginning of October. The Polish historian is an advisor to the newly elected right-wing conservative president of Poland, Karol …

By early October, the so-called Generation Z protests in Peru had built up such pressure that Congress removed President Dina Boluarte from office. Victims of oppression by the Boluarte government are calling for the politician to be imprisoned. But her …

A trip by several AfD members to Sochi (Russia) to attend a so-called BRICS International Forum has caused such a stir within the Union that it has labeled the AfD a “Kremlin party” and “traitors to the country,” with Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) calling for …

The strategies and sources of funding used to roll back sexual and reproductive rights are also detailed in the report ‘The Next Wave: How Religious Extremism Is Regaining Power,’ written by Neil Datta for the European Parliamentary Forum for Reproductive and …