Karl Pfefferkorn

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  • Nov 25, 2024
    Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz is sidling cautiously up to the debt brake issue that just demolished the traffic light coalition.
  • Oct 23, 2024
    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz seized on Joe Biden’s final visit to Europe last week to organise a conclave of key leaders on Ukraine. President Macron, Prime Minister Keir...
  • Oct 1, 2024
    After another catastrophic result in yet another eastern Bundesstaat, the German Green Party has lost its leaders. Co-chairs Ricarda Land and Omid Nouripour announced their...
  • Sep 10, 2024
    Having famously saved the rickety euro from the international bond markets over a decade ago, Super Mario Draghi has now moved on to an even grander project: rescuing the EU from its...
  • Jul 12, 2024
    Happy electorates prefer a stable polity and vote for parties offering to preserve it.  Discontented electorates, like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, express themselves in...
  • May 1, 2024
    You would think a European leader spooked by the prospect of transactional politics under a new Donald Trump administration might brush up on his bargaining skills while he still...
  • Apr 8, 2024
    When a European leader calls a national referendum he is confident he will win, you should picture the old Road Runner villain Wile E Coyote holding a lit stick of...