followed in third place by the center-left SPD (16.4%/120 seats). This would be sufficient to create a grand coalition between the two major traditional German parties. The populist right-ish AfD ended up in second place, doubling its vote from...
Get in your political predictions for the upcoming year! Likely to be a far quieter year than 2024 on the political front, at least electorally, not least because so many countries had their elections last year that there are relatively few having them t
Scholz, who wants to run again, initially suggested an election in late March but came under pressure from the CDU as well as his own Greens coalition partners to speed up the process. The CDU is riding high in opinion polls and its leader Friedrich Merz had been pushing for an electi...
The name of Elizabeth II is, in the words of the German tabloid Bild, “a global brand” precisely because she is pitch-perfect at playing the role for which modern monarchs are best suited: that of slightly stuffy but right- minded role models. The demand for that ki...
German authorities have banned the largest 'Reich citizen' group, known as the 'Kingdom of Germany,' and arrested four of its leaders in nationwide raids. The group is an extremist far-right organization that rejects the legitimacy of the German state and seeks to establish a parallel governmen...
An economist and political novice, Gitanas Nauseda, took the lead in the first round of Lithuania's presidential election on Sunday (12 May) and will face Ingrida Simonyte, a conservative ex-finance minister, in a 26 May runoff coinciding with the European elections. No opinion polls are ...
Chapter 3 The Political Challenge of Irregular Migration As we saw in Chap. 2, there is little doubt that the political salience of irregular migration has grown significantly. Moreover, the main direction of immigration policies is increasingly selective: substantially liberal for people coming ...
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The German announcement to lift the debt ceiling to invest in their own defense is a major signal that the Europeans can no longer count on the US providing them with military protection. Without the goodwill of allies, the other countries can now gang up against the US to protect ...
One clear fact emerging from current public opinion polls is that most Americans have little confidence in both political leaders and the political system. At the time of this writing, the president's approval ratings have slipped to the... Menninger,C David - 《Review of Politics》 被引量:...