Fresh from its loss in Saxony-Anhalt, Friedrich Merz’s CDU party has fallen to heavy defeats in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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European countries are struggling to work out a unified approach.
Splits are appearing in Europe’s approach to Russia’s aggression just when it needs to present a united front.
European leaders are learning they cannot rely on Washington, and that the US will act against their interests and at their economic expense.
The expectations of voters in the UK – like those elsewhere – may simply have become too great and too complex for any leader to satisfy them.
The center of gravity in Europe is increasingly aligning along a Rome-Berlin axis.
European leaders are sending markedly inconsistent signals in the face of clear provocation from the US.
Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where politics have swung sharply right.
France, Germany and Poland together represent a strategically significant partnership in a Europe plagued by war to its east.
Germany’s ‘Staatsräson’ has long held Israel’s security as its ‘reason of state.’
Economic success is not just down to putting in more hours.
Kyiv is hoping that being able to hit targets inside Russia will give it the strategic edge it has lacked until now.
Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.
Merz immediately headed out to meet other European leaders once confirmed as chancellor.
Merz won confirmation of MPs in a second round of voting after becoming the first ever chancellor candidate to lose in the first round.
It has only been a few weeks since the election, yet the far right has overtaken Merz in a poll.
With Donald Trump rapidly reshaping the world order, Germany is poised to play a pivotal role under its new government. New Zealand should be ready.
Henry Kissinger once mused ‘Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?’ The question now might be, would Washington bother to dial if there were?
The CDU/CSU will seek a coalition with the SDP, which came third in the national vote.
The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a government, following coalition negotiations.
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