Germany's far right wants to DOGE its foreign aid agency [Politico] ↳

Germany's far-right AfD is exploiting a fraud scandal at development agency GIZ — where 24 Yemen-office employees were dismissed over alleged embezzlement estimated at tens of millions of euros — to push for abolishing the country's development ministry entirely, with party spokesperson Rocco Kever explicitly pointing to the Trump administration's gutting of USAID as an "interesting and courageous signal" for Germany to emulate.