A German gay man has explained why he turned to the far-right political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), after he was brutally attacked by ‘Muslim extremists’.

Karsten, 55, from Bremen, met former shadow secretary Ed Balls for his new documentary series, ‘Travels in Euroland’ which airs on BBC2 tonight at 9pm, and explained that despite the populist party’s anti-same-sex marriage policies, he chose to vote for them in 2017.

The taxi driver had always voted for the country’s left wing green political party, Alliance 90/The Greens, however was swayed after he and his partner Sven were brutally attacked, leaving Karsten with six plates and 17 screws in his head.

He told how the attack, from two men who soon fled to Syria, left him believing his partner was dead, and said the AfD were the only political group to reply to him after he contacted them about the incident. Driving in his car, Karsten explained to the former Labour MP how while he doesn’t take issue with the town’s increasing refugee population, he fears a potential increase in crime against him as a gay man.

‘They attacked me and my partner. We were at the store and they probably knew we were together because two of them lived across the street from us.

‘Then my partner left the store and that’s all he remembers and then they started beating him up and kicking him in the head. ‘I found out and tried to help him, but then there was another one and it was dark outside and there was another one and they hit me with something from the side.’

Karsten went on to explain: ‘I wrote to all the parties, I wrote to our senator. I wrote an email to the AfD and they promised to help us and they invited us to a meeting.’

When asked what they were looking for in the party, he went on: ‘The AfD said they would take care of the borders, try to get criminals out of here as fast as they can trying to get them arrested.

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According to press reports, Amazon is now increasingly delivering its parcels itself. We have also received three parcels from Amazon deliverers in the last few weeks. The first parcel was delivered by a presumed Turk, the second parcel by a Polish woman and the third parcel by a “refugee”. Two vehicles (rental cars) were sent here at once. In the first car, the deliverer (refugee) and in the second car a German man. Probably the “refugee” should be trained. It took a full 20 minutes until the “refugee” found the delivery in the vehicle, which would probably have taken even longer without the help of the German. The German driver also looked quite annoyed, because the delivery was at 7:30 pm, when most of the parcel deliverers are long gone home.

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Forum for Democracy, a conservative anti-immigration Dutch party founded by Thierry Baudet, now has more members than any other party in the Netherlands.

FvD is the political party with the highest number of members according to figures from the Documentation Center for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP), which publishes the numbers annually. The is the first time that FvD has had the greatest number of members of all the parties. In total there are 42 794, which is over 3 000 more than the CDA [Christian Democrats].

Gerrit Voerman from the DNPP calls it a unique development, because the party of Thierry Baudet has been in existence for only three short years. Last year 12 000 members joined Forum. In March the party won the elections in the provincial states, but there was also an internal fight which led to a split in the First Chamber (Senate) under the leadership of co-founder Henk Otten. In December, Baudet announced that (FvD) was the largest party in the Netherlands.

In recent years Forum has made a concerted effort to recruit new members. Thus, at the end of last year, the party launched a campaign in which mostly VVD members were called on to switch to the Baudet party. “The number of members is important for Forum because of the charisma of the party; they can now say they are the largest party,” says the political commentator Xander van der Wulp. “It is really an achievement that they have collected those members in such a short time, as the number with other parties is falling.”

A greater number of members also ensures a higher government subsidy. The subsidy consists of a general share that is for all parties, and a special share. The largest proportion of the special share (80 percent) is based on the number of Parliamentary seats, the other 20 percent on the number of members.

The second largest party is the PvdA with more than 41 000 members, followed by the CDA with 39 000. Last year the two parties lost members, outdistanced by the Forum. The number of members for the CDA went down more than 9 percent and the PvdA by 3 percent. The greatest number of defections was from the SP; the party lost 12 percent of its members. The VVD, the biggest party in the Tweede Kamer (Lower House), is in ninth place.

Other parties that grew are the Party for Animals and Green-Left. The Christian Union and Denk remain stable. In total there are more than 300 000 people who are members of a political party represented in the Tweede Kamer.

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Are there any connections between the climate movement “Fridays for Future” and the Green Party, between alleged paedophiles in the FFF and a paedophile member of the German Parliament in the Hamburg Social Democratic Party (SPD)? And if so, which ones? Or are the (still) implied serious accusations of the left-wing candidate for parliament, Tom Radtke, only the revenge and fantasies of a disappointed and crazy 18-year-old student? The police are investigating. There is no doubt: by posting his tweets, Radtke has placed a serious problem on the left wing of the Hamburg parliament as well as on the FFF and the Hamburg SPD. Radtke is a founding member of the FFF-Hamburg and knows the subject like no one else.He has accused Greta Thunberg’s movement of having occupied central Hamburg FFF Internet account jobs with members of the Green Party and hinted that he might also reveal something – probably unpleasant – about the German FFF main organizer Luisa Neubauer. His accusation that the FFF Hamburg has “dirty secrets” such as “the paedophiles at FFF Hamburg” and a particular paedophile at the SPD is particularly serious: “The Hamburg member of parliament should watch out, otherwise he will end up like his former colleague Edathy. I know the names of some of his victims,” Radtke tweets.Child pornographic photos were found on the computer of SPD politician Edathy. In contrast to the Islam critic and ex-minister Thilo Sarrazin, who was expelled from the SPD because of his publications critical of migration, the pedophile Edathy may remain a member of the SPD.

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By Peter Skurkiss

Europe is sailing into a perfect storm involving China, Brexit, and America.  And this does not include Europe’s immigration problem and the populist uprising in member states. This year will be rough ride for Europe, but 2021 could be a true nightmare when all its problems coalesce. Here’s why: Phase I of the U.S.-China trade deal is a fait accompli. The agreement basically calls for China to purchase $200 billion more in American goods and services over the next two years. A big chunk of this ($32 billion) will in agriculture exports to China. The deal also starts to protect intellectual property and curtails currency manipulation. And unlike other trade agreements with China, this one has enforcement mechanisms with teeth should China renege on this or that aspect of the deal. In return, President Trump agreed to ease off on some tariffs which are in effect and hold off on other tariffs with which he has threaten China. This is a significant step in re-balancing the unfair terms of trade America has endured with China since the Clinton presidency. Assuming that China actually complies with this agreement, there will, however, be collateral damage to others. The math here is straightforward. If China buys more from the U.S. it will out of necessity buy less from others. Places from Brazil to Russia, to the European Union will see hits to their agriculture sector.  More critically still is the area of industrial goods. Europe will also come under heavy pressure as China tries to flood the European Union with manufactured goods to make up for what it lost in the U.S. And to make matters worse for Europe, as China loses market share in the American market, it will have fewer dollars with which to buy European products. It is problematic whether or not Europe has the will to stand up to the Chinese assault. The EU is a gaggle of countries with no unified voice. Its ranks can easily be split by a wily adversary which does not have Europe’s best interest at heart.  There are two other storm clouds of the horizon for Europe. One is Brexit itself.  With Brexit, which began on Jan. 31, the EU will lose its second-largest economy with which to trade with as well as a net contributor to its budget. This will enhance the strain between the prosperous northern countries and the the EU’s economic laggards in the south. France, the leader of the Mediterranean countries is already calling for Germany to open its pocketbook and subsidize others. The prudent Germans do not look kindly on such suggestions. With Britain gone, this situation will exacerbate the tension between the two core countries of the EU, Germany and France.  Also, while Great Britain was in the EU, it had been able to temper the worst bureaucratic instincts of Brussels. Now that moderating influence will be gone.  And the Brits added some muscle to Europe’s anemic military capabilities. That too will be gone., Then there’s America. For some time, President Trump has been railing against Europe for its unfair and outmoded trade arrangement with America. So far he has been tempered in his actions. Trump’s priorities were to first work out deals with South Korea, Japan, and Canada-Mexico, and of course, the big one, China. With those deals done, Europe is now next up at bat. Europe is a juicy target. It is even a bigger U.S. trading partner than China, running large trade surpluses with America. With its sagging economy, Europe needs access to the American market more than ever. This gives Trump leverage. France recently got a mild taste of what things could be like. Trump forced President Emmanuel Macron to bend a knee by postponing his proposed digital tax on U.S. firms. Trump did this by threatening to put 100 percent tariffs on French luxury goods like wine, cheese, and cosmetics. Sacré bleu! The priorities for Trump right now are still not trade with Europe. Trump is occupied with the impeachment circus and then the upcoming election. Once those are behind him, look for Peter Navarro, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce, to be turned loose on Europe. And once re-elected, there is little pressure Europe can put on Trump with targeted retaliatory tariffs as China tried.  When the Andrea Gail found itself in the middle of a perfect storm in the North Atlantic, the fishing boat went down with all crew members. That’s not being predicted for the European Union, but it will not escape undamaged in the coming next few years.

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By Monica Showalter

Brexit goes through today, and Britain is finally independent, free from the clutches of the European Union. It’s a great event regardless of how it happens, but in this case, it was cool beyond description. 

It all ended with a pretty amazing flourish, one that told us a lot about both the European Commission and newly sovereign Britain itself. Chief Brexiteer Nigel Farage made his last speech before the European Commission, which was a great scolding and call to shut down the whole operation altogether, which was subversive enough. But he drove it even further. 

Here was the great final moment:

Farage and his buddies ended the whole thing by explicitly waving the British flag of sovereignty right in the faces of all the angry little European Commission eurocrats, even as they sputtered and cut off his mic. 

 Metaphor, anyone? It was the mother of all metaphors, a Britain that asserted its sovereignty in waving its symbolic flag as its soulless eurocrat masters got angry and tried to stop it, not on political grounds, not because they were afraid the other member states might follow, but on petty rules grounds, little administrative state foot-stamping, insisting on cookie-cutter order and obedience, no exceptions, in the face of a newly freed state that just asserted that it can do what it wants.

The ending was absolutely perfect. The mean librarian-looking woman of no memorable name repeatedly, humorlessly, ordering Farage and his allies to take his waved Union Jack flags down. No flags here! It came off as saying ‘no sovereignty, you’re all the EU’s slaves now. And she had no idea how bad she looked doing it, something that is sure to give other restless states of the E.U. some pause. As she cut off his mic, Farage continued demonstrating his country’s newfound sovereignty by laughing at her and refusing.  Sovereigns, after all, have flags. Vassal states do not.

It’s not the first time Farage has shown such sense of purpose. His preceding speech had it – here’s the whole thing here:

And remember his fierce speech to this same bunch of Eurocrats, telling them they laughed at him once but for that now got Brexit. That, too, was electrifying:

Farage not only has a stellar sense of the theatrical, he seems to understand the importance of creating memorable moments and understands how to do them. In a way the self-unaware eurocrate would never understand, he understands the meaning in his movement. That’s why his Brexit was so powerful – and is sure to redound to future acts of rebellion against this nasty, petty little eurocracy Britain broke away from.

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