EU elections

European Election WARNING: How Germany may strike HUGE BLOW to EU - Brexit 'wasn't enough'

Germany’s biggest opposition party, the Alternative for Deutschland, has turned its ire onto the European elite, calling for the EU election to be a referendum on how Brussels is run. The party’s parliamentary chief Alexander Gauland told supporters that Europeans could teach Brussels humility during the elections at the end of May. This comes amid a growing alliance between far-right eurosceptic parties, led largely by Italy’s Matteo Salvini, ahead of the crucial ballot that could determine the future of the EU.

Mr Gauland told AfD activists to send a wake-up call to European establishment figures in the vote.

He said: “I really hope that the result of these elections will teach them self-doubt.

“It could have happened with Brexit but apparently that wasn’t enough for them.”

The German MP was speaking alongside other European politicians who aim to turn the European Alliance of Peoples and Nations into the most powerful bloc in the Parliament.