By Ali Mercan Germany has entered the most intense and final phase of the election campaigns leading up to the February 23 elections. The main topics are immigration, foreign policy and the economy. As in the rest of Europe, the influence of global alignment is strongly felt in the German elections. Key factors nationalism, the nation-state and a production-based economy, ...
As the Federal Parliament elections in Germany approach, the government programs of the parties have begun to be presented to the public in election squares and meetings. In order to draw attention to the events taking place before the elections, the association Kulturtreff, which operates in Germany, held two press statements in Berlin and Frankfurt. The statements, organized with the ...
By Can Çakır Elon Musk’s open support for Alternative for Germany (AfD) and his joint program broadcast with AfD’s chancellor candidate, Alice Weidel, have become one of the key topics of debate in German politics in the past few weeks as the country heads toward elections. The AfD has long been known for its distanced stance toward the US. With ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen For the European Union (EU), 2024 has been a year of deepening economic and political downfall. It is appropriate to gauge the pulse of the EU through the political and economic developments in its largest and most influential countries, France and Germany. The challenges faced in 2024 are expected to carry over into 2025, and likely ...
With the election of Donald Trump as president in the US, eyes turned to Europe. After all, the signals of this change in the US first came from Europe. The European governments with the globalists in the driving seat found themselves in serious crises when they were dragged behind Biden’s plans. The nationalist forces that stood against this achieved important ...
By Gökalp Erbaş The economic hardship of Western countries, especially the USA, is no longer expressed only by Asian experts. This situation has also started to be frequently mentioned by people and institutions that have important positions in the media, finance and ideological pillars of Western hegemony. We will examine some of the most important of these numerous confessional statements, ...
By Şafak Erdem The report published by one of Germany’s prominent economic research institutes, Ifo (Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e. V.), on September 5, 2024, is titled “Deutsche Wirtschaft steckt in der Krise fest” (The German economy is stuck in crisis). The report identifies the crisis as primarily a structural one, and it lists five structural factors: ...
By Michael Roberts * Editorial note: This article was published prior to the election it deals with. But due to its deep and structural analysis, UWI considers that its finding are not only worthy to explain the results but also shed a light on Germany’s path ahead. Elections took place in two large provincial states (Lander) in eastern Germany. All the ...
By Şafak Erdem On September 1st, the German states of Saxony and Thuringia went to the polls. With voter turnout at 74.3% in Saxony and 73.6% in Thuringia, here are five key observations from the election results. 1. No party can form the government alone In both states, no party has secured enough seats to form a government on its ...
By Deniz Yıldırım The energy crisis, rising food and rent prices, the highest inflation in the last 70 years… The cost of supporting Ukraine is becoming more burdensome every day. Since February 2022, the German government has allocated approximately 34 billion euros in support to Ukraine and Ukrainians. Germany ranks second after the US. However, support for Ukraine is being ...