Friedrich Merz has emboldened Germany’s far right
The incoming chancellor’s coalition compromises leave a lot of space for the AfD.
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The far right rising
The AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.
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The year ahead: How could Germany’s election shape the EU?
The February vote looks likely to result in another grand coalition – yet much of the country’s inertia is structural.
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“Merkel’s policy of not arming Ukraine failed”: top CDU official on Germany and Russia
Jürgen Hardt, the foreign affairs spokesperson for Germany’s main opposition party, also blames Olaf Scholz for not being hard enough.
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Dispatch: As Covid-19 cases surge, is Germany heading for another lockdown?
Another lockdown, whether for the unvaccinated or for the country as a whole, would be immensely unpopular.
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The crisis of German conservatism
The crushing defeat of Angela Merkel's party in last month's election made it clear that the centre-right is facing an…
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Can Armin Laschet guide Germany’s fractured Christian Democrats to victory?
As the German Greens surge, Angela Merkel’s putative successor faces a formidable election test.
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Germany’s Christian Democrats ponder a tricky question: what comes after Angela Merkel?
Angela Merkel often recalls how, as a schoolgirl in East Germany, she was once ordered to jump off a three-metre-high…
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