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There are persistent concerns of extremists within the police, military and counter-terrorism forces. Some of the leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have a documented extremist background, yet sit in parliaments

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George Floyd: What US polarisation means for Europe

In a recent book, Why Are We Polarised? the American journalist Ezra Klein explored the depth of political polarisation that afflicts the United States.

His insights are unsettling as he contends that partisan identity has started to dominate all other identities, even ethnicity.

If you are a Democrat you shop differently, you live in different neighbourhoods and you do other sports than you would do as a R...

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

There are persistent concerns of extremists within the police, military and counter-terrorism forces. Some of the leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have a documented extremist background, yet sit in parliaments

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

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