... Sanctions Evasion
Now the chancellor’s seat will go to a longtime rival of Angela Merkel, who opposed “the upstart from East Germany” back in the early 2000s. Friedrich Merz is not just uncommitted to political continuity—he was elected to lead the CDU precisely to overhaul first the party itself and then Germany as a whole. For some, the “right turn” he promised has never materialized, but the sense of a “wind of change,” at least in the ranks of the Christian Democrats, is hard to deny....
Russia–Germany relations will become hostage to Germany’s domestic policies, which will lead to a further cooling between the two countries
For the first time in 18 years, the ruling party in Germany — the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) — has a new leader. On December 7, former Minister President of the Saarland and General Secretary of the CDU Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected the new leader at the party congress in Hamburg after Angela Merkel officially stepped down from ...
The reasons to vote for right-wing AfD are the problems, not the AfD itself.
On one hand, the elections to the Bundestag on September 24 2017 in Germany were somewhat boring. The programmes of the parties in charge and designated parties, CDU and SPD, look similar. Too gibberish and far from facts were the appearances of Martin Schulz, designated candidate for chancellor of the social SPD. Too “mum-like” and an encumbrance to people the statements of Angela Merkel. Most other parties ...
