Did Angela Merkel create the AfD?
Angela Merkel has thrown a firework into the German election campaign, criticising her own party for collaborating with the AfD to pass a motion on migration. But is it her policies that paved the way for the growth of the party in the first place? Assistant online editor Lisa Haseldine discusses the state of the German elections with Berlin based journalist Constantin Eckner.
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