September 15, 2014
Germany’s anti-euro AfD party has hit a rich vein of electoral form building on its success in Saxony two weeks ago (where it scored 9.7% and won its first seats in one of Germany’s 16 regional parliaments) to win 12.2% in Brandenburg and 10.6% in Thur…
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AFD, CDU/CSU, Die Linke, FDP, German politics, german regional elections, SPD, TTIP |
September 23, 2013
Mixed Reaction in the Med Spanish daily El Mundo runs with the headline “Merkel, Merkel über alles”, while an article in the paper argues that a Grand Coalition (composed of Merkel’s CDU/CSU and the centre-left SPD) “would lead, to a certain ext…
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CDU/CSU, Die Linke, eurozone, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, SPD |
September 20, 2013
Despite presenting a ubiquitous front on our blog, our team does often have varying views on the issues we cover. As on twitter, there has been a debate going on within the office about the ins and outs of the German elections – everything from “Veggie…
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AFD, CDU/CSU, coalition government, Die Linke, FDP, German 2013 federal election, german elections, grand coalition, Greens, SPD |
September 11, 2013
Today we released an in-depth briefing on the German elections, and their implications on the eurozone. The top line: don’t expect any fundamental change in Germany’s eurozone policy after the elections.Of the nine proposals being floated to pull t…
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AFD, angela merkel, austerity, Bundestagswahl, CDU/CSU, competiveness pact., debt-pooling, Die Linke, FDP, German 2013 federal election, Greens, SPD |
Germany’s new anti-euro Alternative für Deutschland party is still in its infancy but it has already generated huge interest at home and abroad. While we are not expecting it to cross the 5% threshold in September’s federal elections – not even close …
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AFD, CDU/CSU, Die Linke, euro, FDP, German 2013 federal election, German public opinion, Merkel, SPD, UKIP |
April 12, 2012
Whenever there’s a new, big EU-related initative, say a Treaty or a new bailout fund, you know that one thing will follow: a legal challenge at the German Constitutional Court – the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or BVerfG. And when the heavyweight Court r…
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Bundesverfassungsgericht, Die Linke, emu, eurozone crisis, German Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe, rule of law, SPD |
March 26, 2012
Yesterday’s elections in the German region of Saarland saw a somewhat unexpected surge for Angela Merkel’s CDU party, which won 35.2% of the votes, ahead of the Social Democrats (SPD) on 30.6% and the far-left Die Linke on 16.1%.As Torsten Krauel comme…
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Baden-Wurttemberg, CDU, CSU, Die Linke, FDP, german regional elections, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Piratenpartei, Saarland, SPD, westerwelle |
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