“How is a far-right party drawing voters from labor, a traditional bastion of the left? The question is not academic, but goes directly to the heart of the emerging threat the AfD presents to Germany’s political establishment”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/world/europe/afd-unions-social-democrats.html …
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@mmschwartz: "It may not take long for Germany’s centrist parties to absorb at least some of the AfD’s rhetoric if the new coalition agreement, a blueprint for the next government, is any indication."http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/30/germany-with-centrists-like-these/ …Show this thread -
Germany’s new Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has an historically paltry understanding of Russia-Western relations and hence an inconsistent foreign policy outlook. It’s shocking that the diplomacy of Europe’s powerhouse is led by someone so mediocrehttp://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/interview-with-german-foreign-minister-heiko-maas-a-1203113.html …
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Wolfgang Streeck: “in Germany today, one can oppose nationalism and the nation-state and at the same time pursue German national interests without having to admit it. A very comfortable ideological situation — just look at Angela Merkel.”https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/wolfgang-streeck-interview-germany-european-union …
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@leninology thoroughly takes down@SWagenknecht’s deeply flawed#Aufstehen movement: “it does lead to demagogic baiting – and soft-peddling the argument with the AfD, and vague genuflections to the ‘issues’ they raise”https://www.patreon.com/posts/20945069Show this thread
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“Germany’s Social Democrats are struggling to restore order after a week of chaos and infighting that has unnerved party leaders and overshadowed efforts to secure the backing of rank-and-file members for a new grand coalition with Angela Merkel.”https://www.ft.com/content/3b202aae-1009-11e8-8cb6-b9ccc4c4dbbb …
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The Goldman Sachs guy is going to be deputy to the man whose "biggest challenge could be bringing the country's Social Democratic Party (SPD) back from the brink" (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/15/meet-olaf-sholz-the-new-finance-minister-of-germany-trying-to-rescue-its-socialist-party.html …) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/YiorgosVa/status/975751279426310146 …
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"Germany’s Social Democratic party promised deep reforms on Monday after a hard-hitting official report was released into the causes of its historic defeat at last year’s election."https://www.ft.com/content/19e3ae06-6d88-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914 …
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@onachtwey: “The Social Democratic Party is now functionally the left wing of the CDU. If it persists on its current course, it risks sharing the same fate as its Greek, French, and Italian sister parties”https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/social-democratic-party-martin-schulz-reform …Show this thread
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