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German spy agency seeks more powers amid Russia's suspected financing of far right
REUTERS ^ | April 22, 2024 | Sarah Marsh

Posted on 04/22/2024 10:20:19 AM PDT by McGruff

Germany's domestic spy agency urged Berlin on Monday to give it more powers to monitor financial flows amid growing concerns over potential Russian financing of regional far-right parties ahead of European parliamentary elections.

While Germany's interior ministry said in February it was working on adapting existing legislation to this effect, the issue has gained fresh urgency following a report that a lawmaker for the far-right Alternative for Germany party had received money from a pro-Russian news portal.

"I would hope to have more authority" to monitor financial developments, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency Thomas Haldenwang told a news conference.

"This would affect all areas (of security) because the efficacy of protagonists' actions depends of course also on how much funds they have, but we are especially interested in the financial streams in the right-wing extremist scene."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: afd; eurofascism; fourthreich; germany; russiarussiarussia; stasi; thomashaldenwang

1 posted on 04/22/2024 10:20:19 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Russland! Russland! Russland!


2 posted on 04/22/2024 10:24:00 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: McGruff

sound familiar?

russia hoax

how to silence political opposition


3 posted on 04/22/2024 10:26:15 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: McGruff

FISASTATENHAUZEN! ACHT TUN.


4 posted on 04/22/2024 10:28:16 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: McGruff

Got that? All you conservatives on the “far right” are now considered Russian spies.


5 posted on 04/22/2024 10:28:37 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: McGruff

Deep State über alles.


6 posted on 04/22/2024 10:29:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Hurrikan 2016: Hurrikan


7 posted on 04/22/2024 10:30:02 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: PGR88

That was the excuse I was given when I got booted from Twitter a few years back.

I was a Russian bot.

Still am apparently, according to Twitter/X.


8 posted on 04/22/2024 10:30:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: McGruff

Russia is fighting in Ukraine to end Fascism.....

Russia is financing Fascism in Germany according to the Germans....

All seems like Bull$hitte to me....


9 posted on 04/22/2024 10:33:14 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan (Repeatedl)
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To: McGruff

How ironic that Germany has been financing the “far-right” (National Socialists) in Ukraine.


10 posted on 04/22/2024 10:36:38 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: McGruff
Fascism (National Socialism) is, and has always been, an ideology and practice of the Left.
11 posted on 04/22/2024 10:39:15 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: McGruff
German spy agency seeks more powers amid Russia's suspected financing of far right

That's certainly Nazi right thing to do, however we know that the German spy agency are Nazi nice people they claim to be.

12 posted on 04/22/2024 10:45:12 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Hearing imaginary sounds in the walls, maybe medications would help.


13 posted on 04/22/2024 10:55:30 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: McGruff

Can’t have anyone stand up to the SPD - CDU team that have run Germany for the last 75 years.


14 posted on 04/22/2024 11:04:02 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: McGruff

To save the whales, protect our children, for our publics safety and national security, you should (((WANT))) to trade a little bit of your freedom for this security.

Why not? The Germans already created a damn near slave state to the bureaucracy. Germans are no citizens. The people exist to pay taxes and pay for the bureaucracy with its “Beamte” telling them when and where to $hit, how fast, and for a fee of course. Germany is a nation where you can’t even take a crap in peace anymore, even there they control you.


15 posted on 04/22/2024 11:20:34 AM PDT by Red6
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Taking its cues from the CIA. It will be Germany’s own fake Russian collusion scandal.


16 posted on 04/22/2024 11:50:51 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Cu)
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To: McGruff

Taking its cues from the CIA. It will be Germany’s own fake Russian collusion scandal.


17 posted on 04/22/2024 11:51:03 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Cu)
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