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.
Traffic light or Jamaica coalition? What will the outcome be of Germany’s cliff-hanger of an election?
The German elections take place this week, marking the end of an era and the beginning of a new political coalition for the country.
Angela Merkel’s biographer spills the beans over lunch to explain the scramble to succeed her.
Armin Laschet – Merkel’s would-be CDU successor – is warning of a “red-red-green” coalition, involving not only the SPD and the Greens but also Germany’s far-left party.
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
“How many people were shot crossing the Berlin Wall from West to East?” was a useful anti-Marxist dialectical query in university debates (in the days when non-leftists were allowed to speak in universities). It highlighted the lack of eastbound traffic out of the capitalist West into the whimsically named German Democratic Republic.
The collapse of talks to form a coalition government in Germany has left an unsettling sense of uncertainty in Europe’s biggest democracy. In a country where stability
“Calm down, dear!” The words of the late Michael Winner, later copied by David Cameron, seem the most appropriate response to those who say that,
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