Euroscepticism
Body of criticism of the European Union
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| 2025 | AfD included a platform in their federal election manifesto calling for limits on Chinese companies' involvement in Germany's seaports and digital infrastructure, demonstrating a nuanced approach to China-Germany economic relations. |
| 2025 | The BSW anticipates potential political consequences in the federal election, criticizing the constitutional court protection amendment as 'undemocratic'. |
| 2025 | Sławomir Mentzen ran for president as a candidate for New Hope, though specific vote details are not provided in the text. |
| February 2025 | The JA voted to dissolve as an independent organization, with effect from 31 March 2025. |
| February 2025 | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and AfD leader Weidel announced the start of cooperation between AfD and Fidesz. |
| February 2025 | Georgian Dream party announced its intention to tighten migration laws, marking a shift from their previous welcoming stance towards Russian migrants. |
| February 2025 | Georgian Dream announced legislative amendments to toughen drug policies. |
| February 2025 | The JA voted to dissolve as an independent organization, with effect from 31 March 2025. |
| January 2025 | AfD leadership voted to replace the Young Alternative for Germany as its official youth wing. |
| January 2025 | The Karlsruhe branch of AfD initiates a controversial campaign by distributing 'Abschiebetickets' (deportation tickets) flyers, which prompted criminal police investigations for potential incitement to hatred. |
| January 2025 | Co-leader Alice Weidel affirmed support for Israel's existence while expressing uncertainty about resolving the conflict, highlighting internal party divisions on the Israel issue. |
| January 2025 | AfD leadership voted to replace the Young Alternative for Germany as its official youth wing. |
| January 22 2025 | Milan Mazurek from the Republic Movement, previously excluded, was admitted to the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group. |
| January 12 2025 | AfD leadership voted to formally replace the JA as its youth organisation. |
| January 12 2025 | AfD leadership voted to formally replace the Young Alternative for Germany (JA) as its official youth organisation. |
| January 12 2025 | AfD leadership voted to formally replace the JA as its youth organisation. |
| 2024 | Achieved significant electoral success in local elections, winning 6.2 percent of the vote. |
| 2024 | Reclaim Party announced a strategy to donate £5,000 to candidates from other parties who would agree to their four-point culture-based pledge for the general election. |
| 2024 | Reclaim Party endorsed Reform UK shortly before the general election. |
| 2024 | Four Conservative MPs (Andrea Jenkyns, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Marco Longhi, and Karl McCartney) accepted Reclaim's donation despite party advice against it. |
| 2024 | All four Conservative MPs who accepted Reclaim's donation and pledged to their culture commitment lost their seats in the general election. |
| 2024 | AfD achieved its highest result in Thuringia, winning 32.8% of votes and 10 seats, becoming the largest opposition party. |
| 2024 | In Brandenburg, AfD secured 29.23% of votes and 7 seats, emerging as the second-largest party. |
| 2024 | AfD further expanded its European Parliament election results, with Maximilian Krah as list leader, receiving 6,324,008 votes (15.89%) and maintaining 4 seats, now part of the ESN group and ranking second in the election. |
| 2024 | Co-leader Tino Chrupalla reversed the party's pro-Israel position, calling for an end to Germany's current relationship with Israel and arms exports. |
| 2024 | Hans-Christoph Berndt, AfD's lead candidate for Brandenburg state election, proposed banning rainbow flags from public buildings if elected. |
| 2024 | AfD parliamentary group in the Landtag of Lower Saxony introduced a motion to ban rainbow flags from public buildings. |
| 2024 | In Saxony, AfD won 30.6% of votes and 2 seats as the second-largest party. |
| 2024 | The Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party since the Nazi Party to win a plurality of seats in a state election in Thuringia, marking a significant political milestone in post-war German electoral history. |
| 2024 | After the European Parliament elections, the AfD attempted to rejoin the ID group by replacing controversial candidate Maximilian Krah with René Aust as head of their delegation. When this failed, they formed a new ethnonationalist European parliamentary group called ESN, primarily composed of AfD members and other similar parties. |
| 2024 | Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance participated in the European Parliament election with Fabio de Masi as the list leader, securing 2,453,652 votes (6.17% of the total), which resulted in a new representation in the Non-Inscrits (NI) group. |
| 2024 | Sahra Wagenknecht offered a potential coalition government to the CDU for the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg, contingent on no majority being possible without the AfD. |
| 2024 | Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance achieved notable election results in multiple German states, including 13.5% in Berlin, 11.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, and 15.8% in Thuringia during state elections. |
| 2024 | Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was announced, causing concern among the Brandenburg branch of Alternative for Germany (AfD) about potential vote loss in the upcoming September 2024 Brandenburg state election. |
| 2024 | New Hope participated in European Parliament elections as part of the Confederation coalition, led by Sławomir Mentzen, receiving 12.08% of votes and winning 3 seats in the European Sovereignists (ESN) group. |
| 2024 | Georgian Dream introduces constitutional amendments to 'protect family values and minors', further restricting marriage and prohibiting 'LGBT propaganda'. |
| 2024 | Georgian Dream reintroduced and passed the 'foreign agent' bill, triggering the largest protests in Georgia's post-independence history and widespread international condemnation from Western officials. |
| 2024 | The party's rhetoric and actions became consistently characterized as 'influenced by illiberal ideas', marking a significant ideological shift towards more conservative and far-right positions. |
| 2024 | Georgian Dream supported the Girchi party's initiative to repeal the gender quota legislation, reversing its previous stance on gender representation in politics. |
| 2024 | During the Conservative Political Action Conference in Hungary, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze denounced drug liberalization campaigns. |
| 2024 | Georgian Dream urged supporters to grant them a constitutional majority, with the stated intention of banning multiple pro-Western opposition parties, including United National Movement, Strategy Agmashenebeli, European Georgia, and others, which they claim are collaborating with each other. |
| 2024 | Irakli Garibashvili returns as party chairman, replacing Irakli Kobakhidze |
| 2024 | Georgian Dream announced it would run in the parliamentary election alongside its offshoot party People's Power, presenting the election as a choice between 'war and peace' and promising to ban 'LGBT propaganda' and change the constitution to potentially facilitate reunification with separatist territories. |
| 2024 | Reports emerged that the National Bank of Georgia was facilitating Russian importers to bypass Western financial sanctions by settling accounts in rubles. |
| 2024 | AfD MEPs were expelled from the Identity and Democracy (ID) Group due to reports of Nazi sympathizing from the AfD leadership. |
| December 2024 | AfD announced its intention to cut ties with the JA due to its classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. |
| December 2024 | AfD announced its intention to cut ties with JA due to the organisation's classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. |
| December 2024 | Wagenknecht declared that she condemns the war in Ukraine and considers politicians who start wars, including Vladimir Putin, to be criminals. |
| December 2024 | The Bundestag voted to incorporate the Federal Constitutional Court's structure (16 judges and two senates) into the basic law, with all parties except the AfD and BSW supporting the measure. |
| December 2024 | AfD announced its intention to cut ties with the JA due to its classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. |
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