Guilherme Silva

1548 days ago

As state politics fragments and polarises further, tensions between parties at federal and state level seem bound to worsen.

A pact with the far right in Thuringia rattles German politics

economist.com

NEVER LET anyone say a handful of votes changes nothing. Last October, had Germany’s liberal Free Democrats (FDP) won 74 fewer votes in an election in the east German state of Thuringia, they would not have entered its parliament.