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EUROPEAN leaders got the jitters yesterday over prospects of a snap German election after coalition government talks collapsed on Sunday night.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned of “incomprehension and great concern inside and outside our country … if the political forces in the biggest and economically strongest country in Europe of all places don’t fulfil their responsibility.”
Germany may have to hold a second general election if Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens cannot agree to share power.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
The German Chancellor seeks EU sanctions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to prevent future governments from resuming Russian gas deliveries, delivering a devastating blow to German industry — and German workers, writes RAINER RUPP
In part two of May’s Berlin Bulletin, VICTOR GROSSMAN, having assessed the policies of the new government, looks at how the opposition is faring