The USA's Vice President JD Vance accuses Germany of having "built a new Berlin Wall" – after the country's intelligence agency classified the high nationalist party Alternative for Germany (AFD) as right-wing extremist. "This is democracy", responds the German Foreign Ministry on X.
WorldThe President of the USA, Donald Trump, has started a trade war and caused major falls on the world's stock exchanges with threats of tariffs. What is happening in the USA now is unpleasant, says Lena Fahlén, who is the head of capital management at the Seventh AP Fund, where several million Swedes' premium pension money is invested to grow.
BusinessThe extreme right is experiencing successes in Germany, but it is another fringe force that can gain real influence. The left-wing defector Sahra Wagenknecht has climbed in the opinion polls with a policy that largely coincides with the one pursued farthest to the right.
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