Starving Greek pensioners and importing Afghan rapists. Quite the political legacy!
Chris Wheatley
2 years ago
Could it be that people were unhappy about immigration but were afraid to say?
J Bryant
2 years ago
Isn’t it a little too soon to conclude the Merkel era wasn’t Germany’s golden age? We’ve yet to see what follows Merkel. There’s plenty of room on the downside.
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Leonardo Trentin
2 years ago
I think Merkel’s legacy will be reminded in a similar way of that of Helmut Kohl’s. Not everything was perfect, but it was a period of general political stability and technocratic rule. Perhaps her largest contribution will be her European engagement.
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John Hicks
2 years ago
Always a thought provoking and interesting commentator of German affairs although tensions between “continuity and progress” need further explanation. Entitlement to both seems to be more of a preoccupation among many Germans who remain captured by representation through a vote count they do not understand. Electing people to a chamber now outnumbered by Party apparatchiks who get there, not by a vote but by a most (over 5%) favoured ideology, produces a strange democracy. Governing the Nation through responses to Causes overwhelms the Legislature. The whole 700+ of them! Progress is a diminished and barely understood outcome in this environment.
Starving Greek pensioners and importing Afghan rapists. Quite the political legacy!
Could it be that people were unhappy about immigration but were afraid to say?
Isn’t it a little too soon to conclude the Merkel era wasn’t Germany’s golden age? We’ve yet to see what follows Merkel. There’s plenty of room on the downside.
I think Merkel’s legacy will be reminded in a similar way of that of Helmut Kohl’s. Not everything was perfect, but it was a period of general political stability and technocratic rule. Perhaps her largest contribution will be her European engagement.
Always a thought provoking and interesting commentator of German affairs although tensions between “continuity and progress” need further explanation. Entitlement to both seems to be more of a preoccupation among many Germans who remain captured by representation through a vote count they do not understand. Electing people to a chamber now outnumbered by Party apparatchiks who get there, not by a vote but by a most (over 5%) favoured ideology, produces a strange democracy. Governing the Nation through responses to Causes overwhelms the Legislature. The whole 700+ of them! Progress is a diminished and barely understood outcome in this environment.