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Steve Bannon plans a far-right ‘supergroup’ in Europe, but some key far-right leaders say they’re not interested

Stephen Bannon has already been ousted from his job as White House chief strategist, frozen out by the far-right media organization he helped lead into the spotlight and publicly lambasted by his former boss, President Donald Trump. Now the would-be far-right leader is being told once again that he’s not welcome — this time, in Europe.

Over the weekend, reports emerged that Alexander Gauland, co-chairman of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), had bluntly dismissed Bannon's plans to coordinate a pan-European alliance of right-wing groups.

"We're not in America," Gauland told Der Westen, a news website in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.