Soaring fuel prices drive German far-right calls for a turn back to Russia

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany ?party has used surging energy prices to revive its longstanding call for Berlin to turn once more to Russia for cheap energy after ?scoring some of its best results in two state elections this month. German petrol prices have jumped ?by more than 15% since the U.S. and Israel began their war on Iran a month ago, ?and the AfD’s argument won a ready hearing this month among voters in Baden-Wuerttemberg, a centre of the German car industry. “That was the defining issue,” said Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD’s leading candidate in Baden-Wuerttemberg, pointing to energy…