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DENMARK-DEFENCE/ (PIX):U.S. security agency spied on Merkel, other top European officials through Danish cables - broadcaster DR

DER SPIEGEL Suche öffnen The Green Kingmaker Annalena Baerbock Holds the Keys to Germany's Next Election This fall, a politician with the Green Party could become German chancellor for the first time. Annalena Baerbock is a far more dynamic candidate than her conservative and center-left competitors - and she could be poised for a senior position in the next government, if not the country's top political office. Link kopieren With elections approaching in Germany this fall, one narrative that we will frequently see on the campaign trail has already taken shape. Two against one. Two men again...

46 Shares Uğur Tekiner assesses the prospects for the German Social Democrats, who currently sit in third place in the polling. Social democratic parties in Europe have been in a state of perpetual crisis over the last decade. The decline of once mighty centre-left parties in countries like France, Greece and the Netherlands has become so common that a new term – Pasokification – has been invented to describe it. In Germany, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has seen its support effectively halved from the 40.9 per cent it achieved in 1998 to just 20.5 per cent in the last ...