Election results in Germany causes consternation across Europe as German chancellor says preliminary results in Thuringia are ‘bitter’Daniela Schwarzer, an executive board member at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, has an interesting analysis of the foreign policy dimension of yesterday’s state elections.“There is a high chance that both regions will get a CDU led government,” she wrote.The influence of Länder governments on foreign & defence policy is arguably limited. And yet the effect of this strategic move of BSW may be huge: It may split the Christian Democrats, Germany’s largest opposition party and to date supporter of Ukraine, down the middle. Continue reading...
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