German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said that democratic parties need to show the ability to solve problems and pragmatically compromise in order to blunt the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). “As a democratic majority, we must prove that we are capable of solving problems with a free, open democracy,” Habeck said on Tuesday at an event hosted by financial newspaper Handelsblatt. Habeck, a Green, also took a swipe at AfD co-chair Alice Weidel without directly naming her. Weidel said in a recent interview with the Financial Times that the AfD would support a referendum to qu…