Below is the intervention read by Liz Schmidt, representing Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa (BPE-Austria) at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Session 8 “Freedom of assembly and association”, September 27, 2013. In her intervention Ms. Schmidt addresses the erosion of freedom of assembly in Germany, particularly as it applies to the new political party Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD).

Many thanks to Henrik Ræder Clausen for recording this video and to Vlad Tepes for uploading it:

The related BPE paper is available here.

For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.