German politicians allied against Steve Bannon | DW |

Plans for US far-right figure Steve Bannon to exert his influence on the European parliament's 2019 election have been met with alarm across Germany's political spectrum. Bannon has become a controversial figure, known for his ties to the campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union and the election of US President Donald Trump.

"We have to fight now, with good arguments, confident and true," said Michael Roth, a center-left Social Democrat (SPD) lawmaker and Minister of State for Europe in an interview with the Welt newspaper.

Europe should not "be afraid of nationalist campaigns with which Mr. Bannon would like to force Europe to its knees...our values are stronger than his hate and his lies."

'A frontal attack on the EU'

In an interview with the same newspaper, Florian Hahn of the center-right Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), said that he believed that the threat of Bannon's influence in European elections should be "taken seriously."

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