German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

<p>Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers</p><p>Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.</p><p>The findings, <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-political-research/article/farright-agenda-setting-how-the-far-right-influences-the-political-mainstream/D247EC90E46089A9EDA3223B435BC149">published</a> in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds">Continue reading...</a>