EU politics
Adam Tooze – Chartbook 356: Deutschland 2025 – A live (and complicated) democracy
Analysis of the German election result. In Adam Tooze’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
Germany
EU politics
Ed Turner – Germany’s political turbulence will continue
It looks like a Christian Democrats-Social Democrats coalition government is on the cards, which may be the final death nail for the German establishment. Ed Turner is Reader in Politics at Aston University in Birmingham […]
EU politics
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux – The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness
Class identity still matters in politics, the problem is that the left has forgotten how to activate it. Linus Westheuser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Thomas Lux is a Postdoctoral Researcher at […]
Finance
Heinrich Neuhaus – Germany: Alstom, staff cuts, closures, relocation
More signs of Germany de-industrialising, leaving thousands of workers in search of decent jobs. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the full article HERE.
Geopolitics
Esad Širbegović – How the Magdeburg Christmas market attack exposed Germany’s blindness to Islamophobic violence
Germany’s state-sponsored Islamophobia means that the ideology motivating the Magdeburg Christmas market attacker has to be brushed under the carpet. Esad Širbegović is a writer and analyst based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is also a […]
EU politics
Politico – Germany’s Scholz loses historic confidence vote
Scholz will be out in a couple of months, but will there be any real change? Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Politico – Scholz campaigns on refusal to send long-range missiles to Ukraine
An indication of how the political winds are changing: politician in Germany campaigning on NOT sending weapons for Ukraine. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Ali Nobil Ahmad – Handsomely Funded to Ignore Genocide
‘Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation, meant to promote a culture of democratic debate. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience […]
Finance
Frédéric Fréry – Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?
Volkswagen is Germany’s largest private-sector employer, but it now faces a mammoth crisis which was partly self-inflicted. Frédéric Fréry is professor of Strategy at CentraleSupélec, ESCP Business School. Cross-posted from The Conversation In late October 2024, […]
EU politics
Politico – Germany may hold election sooner than planned, Scholz says
Germany’s Chancellor has lost all authority. He could be gone by Christmas. Read the article HERE.