10 years after Merkel’s “We can do this”
Posted by Thomas Klikauer Turbo-charged by far right tabloids, right-wing populists, and the neo-fascist AfD, Germany continues to be an...
Extreme right-wing movements
An everyday Neo-Nazi attack in Germany
Posted by Thomas Klikauer Neo-Nazi attacks in Germany are neither new nor, sadly, particularly newsworthy anymore. Yet the recent assault...
East-Germany – The Stasi and a racist pogrom in Erfurt
Posted by Thomas Klikauer This is the story of something that was not supposed to exist. Almost to the day,...
German State Backs Neo-Nazi Press
Posted by Thomas Klikauer The not too stupid sections of German Neo-Nazis run a monthly jounal. Obliquely, it is labelled...
Thomas ● Adolf ● AfD
Posted by Thomas Klikauer The 6th of June 2025 marked the 150th birthday of novelist and Nobel Prize winner Thomas...
“The operation was successful, but the patient died”: Romania, the EU and the far right
Carmen Rafanell, Florentin Cassonnet, Réalité (in French), 30 May 2025 Critic Atac (in Romanian), 5 June 2025 This dialogue...
Neo-Nazis reshaping German history
Posted by Thomas Klikauer Not too long after the formation of Germany’s most successful Neo-Nazi party in the year 2013...
Conservatism and neo-nazism in Germany today
Posted by Thomas Klikauer The image above shows Germany’s CDU-boss Friedrich Merz in a classical position opposite Germany’s neo-fascist AfD...
The Polish presidential elections in context
Vladimir Mitev, Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat On the night of 1–2 June 2025, the Cross-border Talks team — Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat and Vladimir...
Resisting an authoritarian takeover – lessons from Germany
Posted by Thomas Klikauer Ever since its inception, Germany’s the neo-fascist AfD has climbed in public polling and election results. ...
