On Tuesday, federal interior minister Nancy Faeser unveiled the German government's new and ambitious action plan on preventing and fighting far-right extremism.
It could have significant influence on how the extreme-right are dealt with elsewhere in Europe.
Two years ago, a 43-year-old right-wing extremist, Tobias Rathjen, gunned down 10 individuals and injured five others, in two successive attacks on shisha bars in his native city of Hanau.
Rathjen's attack was part of a...
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Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler is the senior director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the former coordinator of the UN Security Council’s ISIL (Da’esh), al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team. Alexander Ritzmann is a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and an advisor to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network.