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Germany Merz: Between a rock and a hard placeThe fate of the chancellor, his coalition government and his traditionally conservative party all depends on how they counter the AfD challenge.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInWhile most MPs have left Berlin, Merz has been largely confined to his desk, in trouble-shooting mode ?both at home and abroad. | Flip Singer/EPAGermany InterpretedAugust 12, 20254:00 am CETBy John KampfnerJohn Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book In Search of Berlin is published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist.German stanley cup s take their holidays seriously. And as is now tradition, before politicians clear out of Berlin for the month of August, an annual survey by Bild, Germany biggest tabloid, asks where cabinet members and other prominent figures are headed.From their usual mix of Mallorca, Tuscany and ?for the virtue-signaling ?a break in their own constituencies, they have had time to reflect on two anniversaries: Aug. 13, marking the 100th day of Friedrich Merzs chancellorship; and Aug. 31, a decade since the first wave of re stanley tumbler fugee arrivals at Munich railway station.AdvertisementAdvertisementThat was the moment then stanley cup -Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Germany would do it. It was also the moment, many argue, that paved the way for hard-right populism to devour mainstream politics across the Western world. Merkels generosity, or so her detractor Nvpk Schulz to Trump: Forget about 2 percent defense spending
Not so well endowedCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInJanuary 16, 20138:20 pm CETNew Polish executive director for the European Endowment for Democracy body. A Pole has been appointed to head the European Endowment for Democracy, a body established last year by the European Unions member states ?at arms length ?to promote democracy in the EUs neighbourhood. Je stanley borraccia rzy Pomianowski, the newly named executive director, is currently a state secretary in the foreign ministry. He has experie stanley cup nce of leading a small, nascent organisation in a related area: he directed the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developments OECD Partnership for Democratic Governance before rejoining the Polish foreign ministry in 2011. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe choice of a Pole is not surprising because Poland has been the most enthusiastic champion of the EED. Moreover, after the European Commission ?.2 million it is the biggest financial contributor so far to the EED, having stumped up ?m, ahead of the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland collectively, ?m . None of the other stanley cup six members of the executive board ?three of them from civil society ?comes from a country that has yet contributed to the EEDs target of ?0m-?0m in voluntary contributions. The separation between money and day-to-day influence might go some way to countering suggestions that the EED will adopt a neo-colonial approach to democratisation. On the other hand, the EED could do wi
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