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The new fault line in Europe

By Mark Landler
Party members celebrating with a sign of AfD top candidate Ulrich Siegmund after the first results at an election party after the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany. — AP

WHEN a far-right party won a landslide victory in a small state in eastern Germany on Sept 6, its reverberations could be felt from Downing Street in London to the Elysee Palace in Paris.

Rarely has the result of a regional election been viewed with such portent for the fate of democracy in Europe.

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