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Inside Europe 27.04.2023

Kate Laycock
April 27, 2023

The AfD’s youth-wing is officially right-wing extremist, urgent questions are raised about elections in North-Kosovo, an outside challenger shakes up the Turkish election race, and why the Pope will be staying a little longer in Hungary this time round. Also: Russian dissidents, North-Sea spy ships, and Scandinavian fact checkers.

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Deutsche Welle Moderatorin Kate Laycock
Kate Laycock Editor and host of Inside Europe
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