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If we spend weeks, possibly months... then the period in which this country is without a majority capable of governing will be too long for me,
Merz said in a recent Politico interview I think it will be essential to a centrist coalition for him to make clear that he won’t accept support from the AfD again,
Huber said, referring to a taboo-busting move by Merz last month to solicit far-right votes in parliament for hardline migration proposals The biggest loser of the latest developments is Germany, not only because its economic power has shrunk but also because German politicians relied unconditionally to the end on the transatlantic relationship,
he wrote in the newspaper Die Zeit I didn’t invade Ukraine!”
There won’t be endless chances for the democratic centrist parties to come together and keep the AfD out,
Do you know what the owners would say once they stopped laughing?"
Europe must be a player and not ask maybe to get a seat at a side table, ... No, we must sit at the main table.”
We have not left Ukraine alone, that should not and must not happen in the future,
said Scholz, whose three years in office have largely been defined by Russia’s invasion With me, Germany will have a strong voice in the European Union again.”
Uncertainty about the future has increased and the answer to this must be to ensure that our country is still as far ahead in 10, 20, 30 years as we are today,
Scholz urged at the campaign event We will only gain respect in this European Union again if we finally overcome our country’s economic weakness.”
However, he said ... Which he I hope that it [the U.S] remains a democracy and does not slide into an authoritarian populist system,
Merz told a campaign event in Darmstadt on Thursday Nobody expects the AfD to form a government this election,
We think it’s unthinkable that fascism could return to Europe, but it has — it’s here,
said Marina Weisband, a prominent activist, author and psychologist Will the Americans still be there?”
he told the Darmstadt event The established parties have no answers,
added Weisband, founding director of Aula, a project to strengthen democracy education in German schools They have slowly but surely crept up in the opinion polls,
I don't want to suggest Merz plans (a coalition with the AfD), but I have to say my personal confidence that he won't do it after the election if that's his only way of becoming Chancellor - that's gone,
said Ulf Buermeyer, host of the popular and influential podcast State of the Nation I want to do politics so that a party like the AfD is no longer needed in Germany,
he told a congress of his conservatives in January, blaming the Social Democrat Scholz and his Green partners for creating the conditions that nurtured the AfD If elected as Chancellor, sparks might fly between Merz and Trump as Merz has been extremely critical of Trump’s fascination with tariffs."
He told the Daily Express
