Germany questions future of the European project
www.lemonde.fr
Berlin has expressed doubt about the European Union's ability to withstand the rise of nationalist parties and the pressure from the Trump administration. The unprecedented German skepticism has raised fears of lasting weakening, or even the gradual marginalization, of Europe as it exists today.

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Berlin is expressing doubt about the European Union’s ability to withstand the rise of nationalist parties and the pressure from the Trump administration. This unprecedented skepticism in Germany has raised fears of lasting weakening, or even the gradual marginalization, of Europe as it exists today.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Scholz was ineffective, but he’s not the one for whom the invasion of Venezuela was very complex or who sees a migration problem in the Stadtbild. He enabled the FDP, but merz is enabling the AFD, so that feels like a tossup.

    • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Scholz rivals Kohl and Schröder in terms of corruption. He was very effective at covering up Cum/Ex, the biggest case of tax fraud in German history.

    • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      To be fair, the commenter you replied to never said that the previous government was worse. They just said they were disappointed in it, which I can fully understand.

      And it is no surprise that merz and the CDU are acting that way. As they were assholes even before being elected.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        Yeah, none of this is a surprise, sadly. The CDU is effective, but wants evil things; the SPD is better on the surface, but both ineffective and cowardly in the moment it counts; FPD are capitalists; AFD/FW are racist manipulators; and all of them are willing to sell Germany out to better themselves.

        I’m not happy with the other parties, but I don’t see them as problematically, either because they’re less relevant or less corrupt (from what I can tell as an immigrant here for five years- I don’t know what the fuck BSW is about, for example, but I certainly don’t trust it).

        • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          but both ineffective and cowardly in the moment it counts;

          The current day SPD isn’t ineffective nor cowardly, they are just good at faking tummy aches over implementing things that hurt the majority, but benefit the rich. Whenever there is an upcoming election, they’ll fake caring about the working class to get some votes, just to go back to their real neoliberal self when if they win.

          Have a good look at German history and see who implemented the harshest social cutbacks in the post WW2 period.

        • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          I don’t know what the fuck BSW is about, for example

          They are really just about licking Putin’s boots and their job is catching the idiots not susceptible to the AfD’s brand of Putin bootlickery.

    • Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      The last government was a disappointment because in the beginning it gave some people hope for actual improvements. We don’t have those hopes with the current one in the first place.