The rise of three far-right groups in the European Parliament

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The European Parliament, the biggest democratic institution in the world, now features three far-right groups. Two of them, Patriots for Europe and Europe of Sovereign Nations, emerged only this week, from the ashes of failed alliance negotiations.

Why couldn’t the far right unite, and what does their failure to form a single bloc mean for the European Parliament’s next five-year mandate?

In this episode, host Giada Santana and Berlin correspondent Kjeld Neubert trace how the political developments between Germany and Brussels have led to the most fragmented far right camp in a decade.

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