Summary
- Germany’s AfD party will seek new partners in the European Parliament after being banned from the Identity and Democracy (ID) group.
- AfD was expelled from the ID group due to scandals linked to its top candidate for the recent EU polls, Maximilian Krah.
- Despite attempting to mend ties with the ID group by expelling Krah, they have not been re-admitted.
- The AfD came second place in Germany in the EU vote, behind only the conservative CDU-CSU bloc.
