Tag: Germany
Germany’s New “Totalitarian Democracy”: An Interview with Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen
Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen spent decades at the heart of the German security state. As a senior official in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and later as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he helped...
The Firewall Machine: Inside Germany’s NGO Complex and Its War Against the AfD”
The following article originally appeared December 2025 in the Hungarian Conservative and is syndicated with the permission of the author. Arian Aghashahi is a conservative political strategist, commentator serving Managing Director of the Sovereignty Foundation the political foundation affiliated with...
Justizposse! Bogus Shoplifting Case Dropped Against AfD MEP as State Lawfare Intensifies
A long-running criminal case against former Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MEP Gunnar Beck has collapsed in spectacular form at a German district court, bringing an end to a series of accusations that had shifted dramatically in scope over two years. ...
The Professor’s Party Comes of Age: What the AfD Can Teach Irish Populism
The European political arena is still ringing with Sunday’s not-so-surprising triumph for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in two regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony that placed them comfortably ahead of Berlin’s ruling green-left coalition. Irish press coverage scarcely goes...
Germany: The Coup that Wasn’t?
Clocks were set back to 1919 this week with the German Bundesrepublik acting robustly to suppress plans to overthrow the state by Russian-backed nationalists, at least if authorities can be believed. Leading to the arrest of 27 Wednesday morning in...
Ireland’s Foreign Policy Stagnation on Display at UCD Event
As a consequence of an increasingly unstable international situation throughout the past decade, contemporary European foreign policy has begun to change. Since the end of the Second World War, and exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, European interests...
Inside the German Fedposting Machine
The Bundersrepublik of Germany’s counter terror operations against the online far right were partially divulged this week in reportage by the left leaning Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. Focused upon the exploits of an unnamed female officer for the Federal Office for...
Why is the German Government Funding the Surveillance of Irish Nationalists?
Political parties in the German national parliament can secure funding for private entities of their choice (called ‘Foundations’) amounting to tens of millions of euros every year. The AfD recently took a case against the state’s refusal to give it...
German Elections: Did the Centre Hold?
In Brendan Simms’ 2013 work Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, he argued that the geopolitical history of Europe since the fall of Constantinople could be boiled down to the question of mastery over Germany. The land of the Rhein, Oder,...
Junge Freiheit: How Germany Built a Populist Press
Founded by a coterie of nationalist students against a prevailing ethos of left-liberalism on campuses, Junge Freiheit (Young Freedom) has been an instrumental outlet for the German Right for over 30 years. Occupying an intersection between the Conservative, Populist and...