COMMENTARY

What Happens in Thuringia Won’t Stay in Thuringia

February 17, 2020 0

Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project As a reminder of a fairly complicated situation, Thuringia (see map) held regional elections last October, in which Eurosceptic parties from both left (Die Linke) and right (AfD) […]

COMMENTARY

Thuringia Foretells the Fracturing of Germany

November 5, 2019 0

Thuringia Foretells the Fracturing of Germany TOM LUONGO It’s hard to overstate the importance of the election results last weekend in Thuringia.  The complete collapse of the two centrist parties there, Angela Merkel’s CDU and […]

COMMENTARY

When Losing is Winning in Germany for the AfD

September 3, 2019 0

When Losing is Winning in Germany for AfD TOM LUONGO Germany held the first two of three important state elections over the weekend. And the results were striking. Leading up to the elections, polls had […]

GOVERNMENT

Merkel Government Is Still in Denial

December 22, 2016 0

Merkel Government Still in Denial Vijeta Uniyal Islamic State took responsibility for the December 19 Berlin truck-ramming attack that killed 12 people, similar to the July 14 attack in the French city of Nice, and […]