Germany's crunch elections: Can mainstream parties... France 24

Germany's crunch elections: Can mainstream parties blunt surging far right?

France 24 February 20, 2025

Crunch elections for Germany at perhaps the most pivotal moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Back then, it was about making a success of reunification. Now comes a reckoning over the German model that ensued. Under threat, the kind of global free trade that powers Germany’s export-driven economy. Instead it’s Trump’s tariffs, a Russian aggression that’s inching closer in not-so-far off Ukraine and an aging population that needs to replenish its workforce, but doesn’t want more migrants.

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