Why does Sahra Wagenknecht see me as a potential donor for her new party?
Why is Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party targeting me as a potential donor? I have no idea, and the algo doesn’t really say.
Tag: germany
The 5 most popular posts in 2024
What were the 5 posts in 2024 that people actually read? #1 will surprise you.
Which German voters oppose military support for Ukraine? Shock, surprise: easterners and AfD/BSW supporters
Germany’s campaign already reveals deep political divisions over Ukraine support.
Quoted in the observer
Deborah Cole (together with Jon Henley) has a good (i.e., mildly depressing) piece in this Sunday’s Observer on why the respective stalemates in Berlin and Paris are a slow-moving disaster for Europe. While she was working on it, we had a lengthy chat about the German end of the situation, and I’m very happy that…
For AfD voters, Trump is an angel of peace
Here is a little gem from today’s Politbarometer survey. Most Germans (71%) don’t believe that Trump is able to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal (whatever that means), and only 24% think that he could do it. But for nearly two thirds of the far right AfD’s voters, the answer to that question is a hearty…
Three months before the election, just how strong is the far-right Alternative for Germany?
Germany will hold an early election in February 2025. It looks like the AfD could increase their 2021 result by half.
Orbán travels in style, Putin meddles in Germany, Wagenknecht blackmails the CDU, and 1 Spanish scientist cheats his way to the top: 4 (or 5?) links I liked
If you are not worried, you have not been paying attention. “National populism” – itself a polite misnomer for a radical right ideology that also claims to attack the elites – is going international. Viktor Orbán, bankrolled by the EU and the Hungarian treasury, is trying to establish himself as the impresario of this transnational…
New publication: the 2024 European parliamentary elections in Germany and 26 other EU member states
After the 2019 Green wave, many observers expected a blue-brownish backlash for 2024. And in many countries, these observers (who are these people, and why are they always so well-informed?) were not disappointed. In Germany, the governing “progressive” coalition took a rather spectacular beating, while the main opposition, the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) performed ok-ish. The…
What just happened in the Brandenburg election, and how will it affect German Politics?
Here’s an interview with DW in which I try to make sense of the 2024 state elections in Brandenburg.
I talked to Deborah Cole about the AfD & Germany’s east
Ten days or so ahead of the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, I had a chat with Berlin-based British Deutschlandversteher Deborah Cole. Some quotes made it into this excellent explainer piece in the Guardian. Looks like Germany failed the test. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/germany-state-elections-populists-afd-bsw