Germany’s newly founded Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was holding its first party conference in Berlin on Saturday, where it was aiming to hone ambitious plans for the 2024 election year. The BSW’s programme and list of candidates for the European elections in June are to be finalized at the event held in the capital’s Kino Kosmos conference centre, once the largest cinema in the former East Germany. The draft manifesto is sharply critical of the European Union and calls for a departure from the EU’s current climate policy, among other contentious points. Wagenknecht split from the hard-lef…