The party base in the north mainly consists of these mid-side businesses that have a very close commercial entanglement with german industry. The parties like to use the euro zone as this sort of cudgel or rather the threat of the euro zone to gather popular support but then when it comes to it it's also their source of income and the way they stay in power ultimately so i think one shouldn't take these far-right populists um too seriously in so far in terms of their europeanism.
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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