Companies alarmed: Growing shift to the right is driving foreign skilled workers away. At the same time, official estimates predict that companies will lack seven million skilled workers in 2035 - due to demographic change.
East Germany is particularly badly affected by right-wing extremism. In January, a report by the research network Correctiv caused a stir, revealing a meeting between AfD officials andright-wing extremists. Prominent members of the party continually spread racist conspiracy theories, such as the “Great Exchange,” which claims that the political elite wants to replace the white European population with non-white immigrants.