The Bavarian elections, held on Sunday, confirm the trend of German politics becoming increasingly fragmented. The simplistic narrative of the country tilting dramatically to the
After a weekend that almost felt like a soap opera, German conservatives have arrived at a fragile truce. For more than two weeks, Chancellor Angela
Last week Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) descended into an open conflict over migration policy. At its
It took Germany more than half a year to form a government after its last elections in September 2017. Now it almost seems as if
The idea of a concerted Franco-German push to drive forward European integration is the dream of some, and nightmare of others. With the election of
In the end, the result was clearer than expected. In a referendum that saw more than 378,000 members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) cast
Tomorrow will mark 150 days since Germans went to the ballot box in September last year. After much back and forth, things are slowly falling
Germany’s general election in September 2017 had been a vote for political change. While Conservatives and Social Democrats together lost 13.8 percent, the far-right Alternative
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