Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.

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    1 day ago

    European defensive democracy stuff sounds good to our left-to-center-left ears, but frankly I doubt it’ll be much use. Without good economic policy fascism is inevitable. This will likely do more harm to the left than it will to the right.