The Alternative for Germany, AfD, is considered the winner of the recent parliamentary elections in Germany. The party has more than doubled its votes to 20.8%, achieving 152 seats in the 630-member-parliament and becoming the main opposition party. We asked Krunoslav Stojakovic, expert at the German Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, for its reasons. The interview was conducted just before the elections. The AfD ...
By Yunus Soner, Berlin / Germany Germany’s parliamentary election winner, conservative Friedrich Merz, is preparing a massive new funding package for military weapons. The investment requires state borrowing. Possible parliamentary resistance forces the future chancellor into a possible trick. Following his parliamentary victory on February 23, Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union announced talks with the Social Democratic ...
By Ali Mercan The German elections have provided concrete evidence of the growing global phenomenon we have been describing as “the decline of the Atlantic and the rise of Eurasia”. Movements of anti-imperialism, national sovereignty and independence have been gaining momentum across Asia, Africa, and South America. What the German elections indicate that this momentum is now gaining a new ...
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: ...