The Guardian8/19/2026, 2:30:13 PM

Germany’s firewall was meant to hold the far right at bay. It may have done the reverse

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An AfD win in next month’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt would shatter a decades-long political consensus and reverberate throughout the EU • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox?

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