Earlier, Professor Lucke told the BBC he wanted to see a "gradual dismantling of the euro as a common currency".

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About 1, 500 members of the Alternative for Germany, established last month, cheered as party founder Bernd Lucke outlined its stance.

BBC: German anti-euro party holds founding conference

Garner may have gotten all the press as he pressed flesh with U.S. troops, but it's Lucke's job to turn on the lights.

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Lucke joined Garner's group after its creation in January, surviving the Pentagon's brutal scrutiny (it rejected eight other diplomats the State Department wanted).

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Professor Bernd Lucke, a professor of economics in Hamburg who founded Alternative fuer Deutschland, reckons that about 25% of German voters would vote for an anti-euro party.

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"It has been humbling, " says Lucke.

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