Germany’s far right taps nostalgia for communist East to propel election surge
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"Germany’s far right taps nostalgia for communist East to propel election surge" is generating significant coverage in the World category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times and The Guardian. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Why is "Germany’s far right taps nostalgia for communist East to propel election surge" trending?
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Coverage (6)
- Saxony-Anhalt election: Why the AfD is so strong DW.com · 13h ago
- Germany's election clash over Nazi past as AfD eyes power in Saxony-Anhalt BBC · 13h ago
- Germany’s Far-Right Maintains Wide Poll Lead Ahead of State Vote Bloomberg · 13h ago
- Ulrich Siegmund and the eastern German state the AfD thinks it can win Financial Times · 13h ago
- My home state is set to hand a breakthrough to the German far right. It’s a disaster decades in the making The Guardian · 13h ago
- Germany’s far right taps nostalgia for communist East to propel election surge politico.eu · 13h ago
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