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‘The traffic light is finished’: How the EU partners view the state elections

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Published: September 2nd, 2024,
Last updated: September 17th, 2024

The leading candidate of the AfD Thuringia, Björn Höcke: ‘Right-wing extremist politicians from Germany are much more terrible than those from France, Spain or Portugal,’ says a foreign observer.
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Paolo Gentiloni will in all likelihood only be in office for a few more weeks, so the outgoing EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs can speak more freely about political developments in member states. „Resentment against everything and everyone has triumphed,“ commented the Italian Social Democrat on the strong performance of the AfD and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) in Saxony and Thuringia. „The worst European right“ and „the worst left“ had benefited from this resentment.

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