Daniel Mitov

Feb 9, 2024 | theparliamentmagazine.eu | Philipp Lausberg |Daniel Mitov

“Nobody will get past us in the new European Parliament,” leaders of the German far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) boldly claimed at their party congress in Magdeburg last year.    The AfD is expected to become the biggest party in elections to be held in the eastern states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg later this year, while a December 2023 poll predicted the party would receive an unprecedented 22 per cent of the vote at the next federal elections in late 2025.

Jan 22, 2024 | theparliamentmagazine.eu | Daniel Mitov |Jutta Paulus

Fifty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union began to reduce tension after a quarter of a century of Cold War. Three crucial arms limitation treaties were signed in 1972, and negotiations began leading to the 1975 Helsinki Accords, which laid the groundwork for the unification of Europe at the end of the 1980s. The era of détente also included economic co-operation between the two sides – not quite friends but not quite enemies either.