"The National Interest" gets it right about why there is a succession of the hard-dying misery named Great Coalition. Its all about trying to let the AfD erode from within.
Its just that I think it will not work. Chaos and misbehaviour as political program can work very well, and fanatize your fans, Trumps proves it. The AfD will most likely score due to similiar reasons. Italy just two days ago has voted right, there are shifts to the right across Europe. People are pissed. The fat cats in established elites ignore it and think they just need to sit it out.
The SPD controls the finance ministry and that means it controls the budgets and policy fomring in all other minisitries. The SPD also controls the foeeign ministry and thus can shift towards left EU politics as it pleases. Both will cost Germany dearly.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/...e-future-24762
A sharp, pointy comment and analysis by Günther Ederer, one smart guy of a journalist. I read him frequently, have two of his books. Google-Bot translation.
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