the greens came back, that was very interesting. i was also very struck by the spd were in the doldrums at the start of the year and were nowhere. it does show again the volatility of european politics. here is a party that was really going nowhere and the cdu were way ahead. one party picked the wrong person, they collapsed to lose 1.3 million voters, particularly a lot of older voters. the spd came back and also we ve seen the two main parties go under 50% of the first time. again that fracturing of politics we are seeing in all the countries. the intriguing difference for germany is that the populace are not on the edges. so the hard left and hard right did very badly and lost votes, particularly the hard left. and yet we are seeing the success of the greens did very well. there is an interesting phenomenon in germany that we are seeing the same break up in traditional politics but people are not
it obviously matters hugely, it s the most important country in europe. it s interesting also that i thought the greens did quite well and were probably the most forceful on the emerging issues of how to deal with the dictatorial regimes, in china particularly but also in russia. the whole attitude towards pressure is quite interesting with the energy crisis whereby germany seems very complacent about russia and this is alarming some of its allies but particularly in eastern europe in poland, ukraine and the baltic states. it symbolised by the new gas pipeline which allows putin to pump his into europe and circumvent ukraine. we ve also seen how the greens came back, that was very interesting. i was also very struck by the spd were in the doldrums at the start of the year and were nowhere. it does show again the volatility of european politics. here is a party that was really going nowhere and the cdu were way ahead. one party picked the wrong person, they collapsed to lose 1.3 million
and circumvent ukraine. we ve also seen how the greens came back, that was very interesting. i was also very struck by the spd were in the doldrums at the start of the year and were nowhere. it does show again the volatility of european politics. here is a party that was really going nowhere and the cdu were way ahead. 0ne party picked the wrong person, they collapsed to lose 1.3 million voters, particularly a lot of older voters. the spd came back and also we ve seen the two main parties go under 50% of the first time. again that fracturing of politics we are seeing in all the countries. the intriguing difference for germany is that the populace are not on the edges. so the hard left and hard right
i was also very struck by the spd were in the doldrums at the start of the year and were nowhere. it does show again the volatility of european politics. here is a party that was really going nowhere and the cdu were way ahead. one party picked the wrong person, they collapsed to lose 1.3 million voters, particularly a lot of older voters. the spd came back and also we ve seen the two main parties go under 50% of the first time. again that fracturing of politics we are seeing in all the countries. the intriguing difference for germany is that the populace are not on the edges. so the hard left and hard right did very badly and lost votes, particularly the hard left. and yet we are seeing the success of the greens did very well. there is an interesting phenomenon in germany that we are seeing the same break up in traditional politics but people are not going to the extremes. they re looking for a relatively centrist forces and i do find that intriguing as well.
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