The rise of the AfD has, in any case, coincided with the decline of far-right parties like the NPD into virtual insignificance. Erfolgreich rechte Politik macht jetzt die AfD.

Das ist ja auch das was die AfD vor Ort so wurmt und die alten Funktionäre in ihrer Eitelkeit verletzt, dass sie nicht einsehen, dass ein Jugendzentrum eben von Leuten geschaffen werden, die auch noch selbst die Jugend repräsentieren.

It is anti-abortion and, despite Weidel's prominent role, hostile to "alternative" lifestyles. The child of an ethnic Croat father and a Serb mother, Mandic was raised from the age of three in Germany.Between them, Mandic and Frohnmaier have been trying to spread AfD’s message to Croatia and Serbia.“We are their voice,” Mandic said, “even if here we are considered to be right-wingers, racists and opponents of foreigners.”Frohnmaier has visited Serbia at least once a year for the past six years, building an alliance with the small right-wing People’s Freedom Movement [Narodni Slobodarski Pokret] and its 35-year-old leader, Miroslav Parovic.Since 2014, both Parovic and Frohnmaier have said publicly that they are working on the creation of a “Paris-Berlin-Belgrade-Moscow Axis.”In March 2017, Frohnmaier spoke at an election rally in the town of Smederevska Palanka in central Serbia during Parovic’s unsuccessful run for the Serbian presidency. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains. Like Donald Trump or populist leaders in eastern Europe, the leaders of the AfD display a conspicuous hostility toward the mainstream media. Update vom 28. Now, Germany’s far-right is trying to extend its own ideology into southeastern Europe.“We Are Their Voice”: German Far-Right Builds Balkan Alliances“We Are Their Voice”: German Far-Right Builds Balkan AlliancesThis article has been produced as part of the Resonant Voices Initiative in the EU, funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police. In Bosnia, he said, Bosnian Serbs and Croats “could support each other in these efforts to get rid of the Sarajevo influence and Islamism.”NPD vice-president Thorsten Heise, a prominent German neo-Nazi, told BIRN: “If we bring together European comrades who didn’t speak to each other before, we have laid the foundations for future networking.”The networking, however, goes beyond political circles.Conservative intellectuals and church dignitaries from the Balkans have become regular participants in AfD and NPD gatherings with their Serbian and Croatian collaborators.AfD’s Frohnmaier told BIRN that his party had initiated cooperation with the Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany by inviting the then Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Frankfurt and all Germany, Sergije Karanovic, and his associates to attend a conference on family values that the party organised in Stuttgart in December 2015.Frohnmaier said political parties in Germany had “never tried to be a voice” for Orthodox Christians in Germany.“I would say it was the first time that a [German] party had an official meeting with such a large group of Orthodox Christians in Germany,” he said.

Er hat sich doch auch nicht mit der AfD in Verbindung gesetzt bei diesem Projekt. It also argues that Germany is being "Islamified" and portrays itself as a bulwark for traditional Christian values.The party is generally regarded to be split between "moderate" and "far-right" wings, the latter of which seem to be gaining ground, shading over into  The party's lead candidates are a study in opposites. "Sunday's state elections in Thuringia were a great success for the far-left and far-right. The AfD wants to seal the EU's borders, institute rigorous identity checks along Germany's national borders and set up holding camps abroad to prevent migrants from leaving for Germany in the first place. Andreas Edwin Kalbitz (* 17.November 1972 in München) ist ein rechtsextremer deutscher Politiker (parteilos, früher AfD, Die Republikaner, CSU).Von 2017 bis zum Entzug der AfD-Mitgliedschaft am 15. Diese Rede bescherte CDU-Politiker Philipp Amthor große Aufmerksamkeit: Mit Feuer und Leidenschaft zerpflückt der 25-Jährige einen Antrag der AfD. It is now the third largest party in the Bundestag.Frohnmaier’s own immigrant background has proved no obstacle to his rapid rise up the AfD ranks.And since seizing a national platform, the balding, bespectacled MP is now putting his Balkan roots to good use by seeking out like-minded figures in the region, Croatia and Serbia in particular.Contrary to a widely-held perception in the West of the Balkans as a source of ethnic nationalism and instability endangering Europe, recent years have seen the emergence of a reverse trend, with the export of far-right ideology from Western Europe to the countries of the Balkans, fanning the flames of Islamophobia and historical revisionism.The targets are not just politicians and political parties, but church figures and intellectuals too, via dozens of meetings, conferences, panel discussions, seminars and other events, according to the findings of a BIRN investigation.The outreach is designed to rise above divisions rooted in the wars of Yugoslavia’s collapse in the 1990s.While others in AfD are making inroads in Croatia, Frohnmaier said the party was actively inviting Serbs and the Serbian Orthodox Church to see the AfD as “a place where their needs are taken seriously,” tapping a rich vein of hostility towards NATO and the EU and an affinity for Russia among Serbs.“We are natural partners,” he said.

Founded in 2013, the AfD is at the forefront of a far-right resurgence in Europe, eclipsing the likes of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, NPD, which is more than half a century old.

Die "Nationaldemokraten" wollen raus aus der Neonazi-Ecke.

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