AfD's Björn Höcke used his popularity to force through candidates he hopes will hasten the end of the EU in its present form in favour of a new, looser alliance of member states. Photograph: Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Germany’s populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) shifted even further to the right at the weekend after its ideological leader promised to kill off the EU, aided by extremist candidates in next year’s European election. Riding high in federal polls on 22 per cent, AfD leaders told delegates gathered in Magdeburg that their decade-old party was “ready for more”, including power after next...