Constantin Nicolaus Johannes Joachim Fest (born 1 July 1962) is a German politician (Alternative for Germany) and former journalist, who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament.^[3]

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Nicolaus Fest MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019[1][2]
Personal details
Born	(1962-07-01) 1 July 1962 (age 61) Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Alternative for Germany

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Fest was deputy editor-in-chief of Bild am Sonntag of Springer SE. In 2014 he wrote a comment in which he called Islam an "obstacle to integration". Colleagues distanced themselves, the press council issued a reprimand and Fest left Springer Verlag. In 2016 he joined the AfD Berlin and stated he wanted to join the Bundestag some day.^[4]

In 2019 he was elected as a member of the European Parliament.

After the death of the president of the European Parliament David Sassoli in 2022, Fest wrote: "Finally this bastard is gone" in a WhatsApp group of AfD MoP.^[5]