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German spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ force. Upgrade from ‘suspected’ threat will mean greater surveillance of party that came second in last election. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... via @theguardian.com @deborahcole.bsky.social

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Olaf Scholz, who made "respect" his political motto, picks the Otis Redding/Aretha classic for his last post. Plus Bach and the Beatles' 2nd most romantic song www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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Love never dies

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Great news: EU may accept 12-month work visas for ‘youth experience’ scheme with UK. Post-Brexit plan would allow British and European 18- to 30-year-olds to travel and work freely @lisaocarroll.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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One of the most important US memorial sites sees fed funding slashed: Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum focused on reality of slavery -- Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Nearly any old residential building in Germany could tell extraordinary stories of heroes, villains and cowards from history. Süddeutsche picked just one in Munich for a deep, fascinating dive www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

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Berlin’s ancient ‘Dicke Marie’ oak feels the effects of a prolonged dry spell. The tree, believed to be city’s oldest, had already been damaged by the region’s increasingly arid climate. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... via @theguardian.com @deborahcole.bsky.social

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It’s a world full of sorrows but behold this year’s Cannes posters

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Tomorrow’s @taz.de: “See Vance and die”

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Berlin reports rise in attacks on refugees amid surge in far-right crime. Call for greater protection for asylum seekers and policies targeting right-wing violence as report sounds ‘alarm bell’. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... via @theguardian.com @deborahcole.bsky.social

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The foreign ministry expressed concerns that the envoys could “exploit the events and maliciously connect them with the war of aggression against Ukraine”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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My Berlin neighborhood pays tribute to resistance pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer 80 years after he was murdered by the Nazis, at the Zion Church where he worked with youth in the early 1930s

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New German govt forms pledging "solutions" to answer far right and Trump trade war. Favorite quote: “The excavators have got to get to work and the fax machines must go.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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‘He defended our honour’: Ukraine reacts to Zelenskyy’s clash with Trump. Luke Harding from Kyiv www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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A great read that really gets at why I as a general news/political reporter have always seen big value in covering film festivals like the Berlinale and Cannes. The stories we tell ourselves, telling us who we are.

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He was being told his own soldiers were fleeing the battlefield and he was forcing them to fight. How would it have looked back home if he had let that go unchallenged?

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How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kann jar nich so viel essen, wie ich kotzen möchte 🇺🇦

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God bless France Inter and its 50(!)-part podcast series on Catherine Deneuve www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

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Over & over again: the far right is strongest in districts with the smallest % of immigrants

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👏The White House barred U.S.-based Associated Press reporters from the Trump-Macron press conference, as part of a feud over the newswire’s refusal to call a body of water the “Gulf of America.” So the French press corps opted to give a Paris-based AP reporter the 1st question, @politico.eu writes

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As the dust settles & we all try to catch our breath: some key takeaways from the German election www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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“There won’t be endless chances for the democratic centrist parties to come together and keep the AfD out,” Omas Gegen Rechts said. “I hope they seize it.”

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German voters head to polls today facing world of change as far right waits in the wings. Europe holds its breath as world’s third largest economic power and most populous EU country faces crossroads www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Betrayed

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🇩🇪 “The big question is just how far to the right the country is about to shift.” James Conran features in @deborahcole.bsky.social’s latest article for @theguardian.com on the growing influence of the far-right ahead of the German election this Sunday. 👇

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Who is the AfD's Alice Weidel and what does she want from Sunday's general election @theguardian.com www.instagram.com/reel/DGTVB0U...

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In the tumultuous German election campaign, which has been rocked by jaw-dropping US interference, a spate of violent attacks and rare fears for the country’s political stability, all eyes have been locked on the party most likely to finish second www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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My colleagues on the graphics team put together this brilliant visual explainer on Sunday's German election. Whether you care deeply about the outcome or are just now checking in, it's worth a look www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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This election has been full of surprises & the comeback of the far-left Linke is among the biggest. I loved talking to young voters about what's making them hopeful & hearing how the PDS/Linkspartei/Linke is changing with the times after the Wagenknecht schism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Alice Weidel refuses to say whether she agrees with the statement by the AfD's honorary chairman Alexander Gauland that the Nazi period was a mere "speck of bird poo" in the vast expanse of German history

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(Musk) seems especially attracted to the far right in Germany precisely because that is where a breach of the cultural firebreak has the most symbolic potency. Getting the AfD over the line into the mainstream is the ultimate stress-test of historical conscience www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was heckled during a visit to a US military installation in Germany as military families protested against the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Where to even begin.

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