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    ID group of populist parties cuts off Alternative für Deutschland after its candidate’s comments that SS were ‘not all criminals’The far-right German party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has been expelled from its pan-European parliamentary group after a string of recent controversies over its policy choices and the conduct of some of its leaders.“The bureau of the Identity and Democracy group in the European parliament has decided today to exclude the German delegation, AfD, with immediate...

  • Europe’s far right in disarray as Germany’s AfD candidate resigns

    Maximilian Krah’s SS remark highlights growing divisions within European far-right and nationalist groupsThe lead candidate for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the European parliamentary election has resigned from the German far-right party’s leadership, as growing divisions between Europe’s nationalist parties threaten to undermine their expected gains in next month’s ballot.Maximilian Krah, who last weekend told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the SS, the Nazis’ main paramilitary...

  • European Parliament's far-right group expels Germany's AfD after SS remark

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Parliament's far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group expelled the Alternative for Germany (AfD) delegation on Thursday, less than a month before elections to the assembly. The decision comes after Maximilian Krah, the AfD's lead candidate in the elections, told an Italian newspaper at the weekend that the Nazi's Waffen SS were "not all criminals". "The ID Group no longer wants to be associated with the incidents involving Maximilian Krah, head of the AfD...