Thanks to the slightly bizarre plot to overthrow the government of Germany, I got an outing on The National, Canada’s main nightly news show. Of course, most of the 20 minutes or so that we talked got edited out, but hey, here (buried in the middle of the clip) are my 15 seconds of Canadian…
Here is a new working paper about the disproportionate success of the AfD and the Left in Germany’s eastern states
I talked to a journalist from Portugal about the ongoing conflict between the FDP and the Greens over nuclear energy, and Scholz’s attempt to resolve it by referring to his constitutional prerogatives. https://www.publico.pt/2022/10/18/mundo/noticia/scholz-forca-acordo-centrais-nucleares-chanceler-raras-vezes-usado-2024489
Dealing with regionalised German government data is and remains a right pain, but at least past me has not been his usual idiotic self
In 2016, Germany’s “Office for the Protection of the Constitution”, a.k.a. the spooks, put the German branch of the Identitarian Movement under surveillance. They are also listed in the Office’s yearly reports under the heading “right-wing extremist actors”. Germany being Germany, the IB in this country is organised as a registered association, which has taken…
One morning at the train station, I saw this spoof campaign poster featuring Christian Lindner as he channels Marie Antoinette
There, nailed it for you.
For better (seriously?) or worse (you betcha!), politics and religion are intimately intertwined. While everyone and their grandfather (and especially their grandfather) gets worked up about immigration from Muslim-majority countries, the more relevant development in much of Europe is secularisation. Secularisation as a process has many facets (e.g. a decline of religious membership, practice, and…
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Why is the #AfD so strong in Germany’s eastern states, and what role do they play for the party?