The CDU are coming back? Time to say goodbye…
- 1st April 2023,
After 16 long years of writing a politics column for Exberliner, Konrad Werner reflects on what
Germany’s political outliers embarrassing their parties
- 6th July 2021,
All major German political parties have a politician who knows how to play to the gallery with carefully honed outrageous statements — to the..
Why the German urban middle class is going Green
- 17th July 2019,
In the European Parliament elections, the Greens won all of Germany’s major cities, secured a third..
Words Don’t Come Easy: “Populism”
- 29th April 2019,
There are fears that the growing populist forces on the right and left are paving the..
Close-Up: Robert Habeck
- 27th February 2019,
In a political landscape beset by fragmentation, Germanyʼs Greens are going from strength to strength. Their..
Conservative at Heart
- 3rd January 2019,
New CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has often been called an “Angela Merkel 2.0”. In fact, AKK..
Friedrich Merz: Germany’s Next Chancellor?
- 30th November 2018,
At a key party conference in early December, Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party is poised to..
Flying High on Pessimism
- 30th October 2018,
The far-right AfD has gained ever more popularity since its breakthrough in 2017. The party’s rise..
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