
Germany's AfD party was expelled Thursday from its far-right group within the European Parliament after a series of scandals involving a high-profile lawmaker, in the closing stretch of an EU election race in which the radical right is riding high.
France's National Rally (RN) and Italy's League -- both partners to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) within the parliament's hard-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group -- have been scrambling to distance themselves from the party and its embattled lawmaker, Maximilian Krah.