THE MOVEMENT OF CIVIC INITIATIVES IN THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURY: TURNING RIGHT?

Abstract

One of the directions of contemporary civic initiatives movement in the FRG is characterized in this article. The author of the article considers that the government and parliament political parties were not able to accept a series of crucial challenges related to migration and intensiication of European integration processes at the end of the 20th century. Not having conidence in traditional state and political institutions, the groups of initiative citizens are trying to solve some parts of the problems themselves. In the 1970-1980s the basis for the movement of civil initiatives were left-wing and ecological groups. Now political movement "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA)" is the typical ex ample of modern civil protest. At the same time new political power "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) which stands against uniied European currency is making away from image of "one subject party", paying more attention to migration problems and the Islamic terrorism threat. Representatives of AfD win one Landtag after another. In the author' opinion, the tendency of approximation of anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant movements with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party can lead to serious political system changes in the state.