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Why Germany still loves its local banks (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,There is something charmingly old fashioned about small-town German life. At the centre of it is the local bank. Whereas in rural Britain, local branches of banks have been reduced to the status of in-person cash machines, with little authority left to make decisions on loans and financing, the Sparkasse is still a linchpin of German life outside the big cities.What we call postbox red is Sparkasse-rot to Germans. Whether it be at a charity evening or a sporting event, the bank’s off
What Die Linke have learned from the AfD’s playbook (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,The AfD’s method of breaking taboos speaks primarily to young men.At the 2025 federal election, crowds chanted “Alice für Deutschland” at speeches given by AfD leader Alice Weidel. The chant is a barely hidden reference to “Alles für Deutschland”, a slogan used by the SA, the Nazi paramilitary organisation whose members beat up Jews and political opponents on the streets of German cities in the 1920s.AfD figurehead Björn Höcke was convicted of using the banned phrase during a speech
The CDU has hit rock bottom. What happens now? (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,The polling suggested that a major upset was on the cards. Nonetheless, it would have taken a fearless gambler to actually bet on it.And then it happened: in the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday, the CDU fell below the 5 percent cut-off to make it into the state parliament.Friedrich Merz called the result a “disaster”. That’s putting it mildly. For a party that, until not so long ago, could claim to be Germany’s only Volkspartei, it was an abject humiliation.
What’s behind Die Linke’s comeback in Berlin? (opens the original)
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A queue stretching down the street in the hip Berlin district of Kreuzberg is usually due to a popular music act… or an available apartment viewing. But on Thursday, just three days before the capital’s state election, it was for a €3 meal at a Kiezkantine (neighbourhood canteen).Organised by Die Linke, the weeklong pop-up canteen was meant to bring the party’s core message of Berlin bezahlbar machen (Make Berlin affordable) off its posters and onto a plate.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewabl
The only man who can save the CDU (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,There is only one man who can save the CDU now—and he isn’t even a member of the Christian Democrats.Yes, the time for Markus Söder, the bombastic, self-aggrandising Bavarian premier, has arrived.Various names are being discussed as successors to Friedrich Merz, but Söder is the only one capable of returning the CDU to its former status as a Volkspartei—a party whose appeal cuts across class and region.With Merz teetering on the brink after a humiliating loss to the AfD in Saxony-Anh
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