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11 May, 2014
Germany's youth rebels against EUBy Nina Lamparski BBC News, Cologne
Euroscepticism is taking hold even in the country at the heart of the European project. And one of the continent's chief Eurosceptics, British politician Nigel Farage, has become an idol to some young Germans - to the consternation of many others.
For rebels, they appear extremely polite, are impeccably dressed and display a distinct lack of piercings or tattoos.
Germany's Junge Alternative (JA), or Young Alternative, may be dissidents - a Eurosceptic youth movement determined to overturn Germany's long-standing pro-European orthodoxy - but they are very conservative ones, advocating a crackdown on immigration and crime.
"Equality instead of uniformity": German media failed to see the cheeky humour of the JA's European election poster, calling it sexist and in bad taste
In response, the JA used four half-naked men in its new anti-crime campaign demanding an end to "soft justice"
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