Eight months into his time in office, Germany’s chancellor has ceded strategy, leverage, and initiative to others.
The incentives are plain: the CDU/CSU–SPD majority has no reason to risk its power by triggering a recount.
The EU Commission’s proposal for the next multiannual financial framework hides a political revolution in plain sight.
Europe talks of peace while preparing psychologically and politically for war.
Across the continent, social democracy is shrinking: in the European Council, Social Democrats now hold only three of 27 seats, already outnumbered by the Right.
Brussels may soon look for systemic fixes—more censorship, more centralisation—but these are recipes not for stability, but for disruption.
The CDU/CSU Union is about to fail at the very thing they have always prided themselves on: political responsibility.
