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Germany after the ‘Zeitenwende’
22/08/2026
In his March 24 speech, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the restoration of the Auswärtiges Amt (AA) – the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany – the country’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, referred to the “strategic challenges” the AA had to face in 1951, “by no means minor.” Of the […]
Elections in Germany: Electoral Shift Without Prospects for Change
21/02/2025
Nostalgia, they say, is a growing sentiment in cultural productions and even in political discourse. Indeed, in Germany, many may long for the days of bipartisan politics, when every four years, the choice was simply between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) […]
Germany after Merkel
21/09/2021
The leaders of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had no doubt imagined these elections as a mere formality. The victory in the primaries of the continuity candidate, the president of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, who defeated all of his rivals – including one undeclared, the president of Bavaria, Markus Söder, of the […]