Let the haggling to succeed Merkel begin
Daily briefing: Voting may be over but the process to decide what Germany’s next government will look like has only just begun.
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Daily briefing: Voting may be over but the process to decide what Germany’s next government will look like has only just begun.
Whoever takes over Mutti’s mantle may have to make a deal with the surging Greens come September.
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
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
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