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The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party said Monday that the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum was an example to follow for the European Union’s most populous country. “It’s a model for Germany, that one can make a sovereign decision like that,” Alice Weidel said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper. Weidel said the party wanted to reform EU institutions to curb the power of the European Commission and address what she saw as a democratic deficit. But if the changes sought by the AfD could not be realised, “we could have a referendum on ‘Dexit’ — a Ge…

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