Eugyppius cautions Germany's political establishment against banning AfD because it lacks the tools to move from a soft authoritarian regime to a hard one.
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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Hamburg, Germany state elections where the Greens won the day, the AfD stayed steady, and Angela Merkel’s CDU party was completely trounced.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the German elections in the eastern state of Thuringia, where voters delivered big gains to the to the left Die Linke party and the right AfD party, while vanquishing Merkel’s once dominant CDU party to third place.
Sputnik – November 17, 2018 Following years of floating within the bloc, the idea of Europe creating joint military forces is on the agenda after the French President and German Chancellor called on their EU allies to unite. While the EU leadership backed the initiative, it got a mixed response among European politicians. Deputy Chair […]
By Diana Johnstone | Consortium News | June 19, 2018 Freedom of movement is the founding value of the European Union. The “four freedoms” are inscribed in the binding EU treaties and directives: free movement of goods, services, capital and persons (labor) among the Member States. Of course, the key freedom here is that of […]
As expected, the SPD leadership in Germany has now completed its U-turn by reversing the decision it announced after Germany’s September elections – that it would go into opposition and would not agree to another coalition with Angela Merkel and her CDU/CSU – by agreeing to a new ‘Grand Coalition’ with Angela Merkel and her CDU/CSU.
The explanation for this total reversal is set out in an article in the Guardian which supports the deal
The German parliamentary elections last September made obvious the growing disillusionment of more and more Germans with the stagnant government presided over by Germany’s perpetual Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
The two parties which made up Merkel’s government – the CDU/CSU and the SPD – suffered the worst results they have each experienced since the Second World War.
Sputnik – June 12, 2017 Germany’s Die Linke party, which held its party conference in Hannover last weekend, is seeking to pursue a policy of “good neighborliness” and improve relations with Russia, the party’s leader in the Bundestag Sahra Wagenknecht told Sputnik. The leftist Die Linke is the third-largest party in the German Bundestag, with 64 seats. […]
The SPD’s decision to select Martin Schulz, the German President of the European Parliament, as its Chancellor designate in this year’s German parliamentary elections, has stirred some speculation of a more substantive challenge to German Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party from the SPD.
In this sedition, a round of the riots that rocked the European Central Bank’s inauguration in Frankfurt, plus a throw back from 1990’s German digital hardcore Atari Teenage Riot and an a double vegan cheeseburger worldwide exclusive interview with “Peter” from …ums Ganze! (which translates to “Crunch Time”) telling us about the coalition that fucked shit up for the EU technocrats this month.
