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How Marine Le Pen fell out with the German far right - and the role played by a small tropical island called Mayotte ft.com/content/69225e… via @ft

The spat btw Le Pen’s RN and Germany’s AfD - which belong to same EU political group - is the latest illustration of unintelligibility of the EU political system ahead of #EP24 I expect RN to join ECR with Fidesz and Zemmour move to ID ⁦Guy Chazan⁩ on.ft.com/3wkMjF1

Brexit wouldn’t have happened if Europe had made more concessions to the UK, CDU leader Friedrich Merz tells the FT. He also turns out to be a fan of the Rwanda model ft.com/content/0e60f4… via @ft

Friedrich Merz - the conservative ex-Blackrock executive with a good chance of becoming Germany’s next chancellor. My profile via @ft ft.com/content/4e9d51…

Alternative for Germany's lead candidate in EU election tells @financialtimes: Not everyone in the SS was a criminal. ft.com/content/712a4a…

AfD's lead candidate in EU elections: "One million soldiers wore the SS uniform. Can you really say that because someone was an officer in the Waffen-SS they were a criminal? You have to establish individual guilt."ft.com/content/712a4a… via Guy Chazan

A coup plot so outlandish it included mystery “signals” such as the death of Queen Elizabeth II as a potential trigger for action. ⁦Guy Chazan⁩ reports on an extraordinary trial on.ft.com/3KakP8j

How the far right is winning over young Europeans ft.com/content/e77e18… via @ft

Scholz removes Geraldine Rauch, head of the Technical University in Berlin, from his "Future Council" over the anti-Semitism scandal. Rauch herself is refusing to step down as TU President.

Jaw-dropping and depressing report by ⁦Guy Chazan⁩ on.ft.com/3xKV5ga

Fascinating interview from 1996 in which the left-populist leader Sahra Wagenknecht describes the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 as "depressing".

Important context for the debate about recent events at the Hertie School — Hertie students question Nazi-era legacy of school’s founder ft.com/content/95b8f5… via @ft

Got caught in the middle of anti #afd protest in #Essen this morning. Just doing my work as #reporter really. Thanks ⁦Polizei NRW BN⁩ for protecting us. Don’t envy your job.

Aufbruch mit drei Kollegen vom Deutschlandfunk Richtung Grugahalle. Demonstranten fragen eine von uns: Presse? Sie beantwortet die Frage nicht, warum sollte sie - und wird daraufhin von fünf Leuten angegriffen und angebrüllt.

Merch from the AfD party conference in Essen. Krah didn’t say anything wrong.

More AfD merch

It's getting nasty. Spiegel says AfD politician bit protester in the leg spiegel.de/politik/deutsc… via DER SPIEGEL

Tino Chrupalla re-elected as co-leader of Germany‘s far-right AfD - strong vote

Alice Weidel reelected as coleader of AfD but with a weaker result than that for Chrupalla

A very fitting description of the wonderful city of #Berlin by Guy Chazan: “The world’s ‘largest collection of black sheep’. It is a sanctuary for renegades and misfits of all persuasions, who benignly coexist with their more bourgeois Bürger neighbours.” ft.com/content/3a0972…