AfD conference in Berlin. Demotix/Jan-Henrik Wiebe. Some rights reserved.
The German Pirate Party (Pirates) and Alternative for Germany (AfD) are two of the country’s most conspicuous political novelties of the past ten years. The former being founded in 2006; the latter in 2013, the year marking the beginning of the Pirates’ visible and irreversible decline.
Many European citizens feel the pinch these days. Even in prosperous Germany. Old politics has left many cold and longing for new ideas. Swathes of unused democratic brownfield were snapped up first by the Pirates and then by AfD – new political buildings are being erected on that soil: some of them already risk being demolished, their foundations proving too weak.
