AfD leader draws backlash over remarks about Romanian migrants in Germany
Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), has drawn criticism from Romanian politicians over remarks targeting migrants in Germany. Romania’s former Liberal (PNL) prime minister Ilie Bolojan and Save Romania Union (USR) leader Dominic Fritz condemned the comments, with Fritz calling on her to apologize. “Child benefits, basic income support, medical care: More and more migrants from Romania are plundering our welfare system,” Weidel wrote on X. She claimed that related spending in Magdeburg had increased twentyfold to EUR 3 million per year and said only the…
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