Down here in the Republic, we can always tell when the Christmas Market has begun. We can hear the screams from people strapped into chairs and whirled about in midair. Either that or it’s the shrieks of punters being told the price of a gingerbread hot chocolate.
In the recent state elections in Thuringia, Germany the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured a significant victory and are, at the time of writing, on course to win around 33 per cent of the vote.
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