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Voters went to the polls on Sunday in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate to elect new local governments. The two German states were once CDU strongholds but have since fallen to the Green Party and Social Democrats (SPD). In Baden-Württemberg the Green Party is predicted to hang on to power with about 33 percent of the vote, with the CDU getting a paltry 24 percent.
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Filipp Piatov is head of opinion at the German tabloid Bild, which last week ran a front page story titled We envy you! in reference to the UK s successful vaccine rollout. In an op-ed for The Times, he blasted Ms Merkel and Ms Von der Leyen, accusing them of abject failure while laying the blame for Europe s vaccine fiasco squarely at their door. While the UK can boast that 27 percent of its population has received a Covid jab, only five percent of the EU s nearly 450
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Alexander Von Schoenburg, Bild’s editor-at-large, has said the UK’s European neighbours are “looking across the Channel with envy”. In a colourful comment piece for the Daily Mail, Mr Schoenburg suggests the EU “machine” is “sclerotic and sluggish”.