Politicians in Germany have failed to find the means to successfully fight the rise of the far-right AfD. Now, hundreds of thousands of normal citizens have taken to the streets in efforts to stop the party. Although the protest movement includes broad swaths of society, it remains fragile.
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Disagreement and Dithering
The Failure of Germany s Coronavirus Strategy
Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for legal changes that would give the federal government more powers to stop the spread of the coronavirus. But the states are pushing pack.
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In normal times, this empty street in Hamburg s St. Pauli district would be filled with revelers.
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Sascha Raabe, a Social Democratic (SPD) member of German parliament from the state of Hesse, knows what it’s like to have COVID-19. He caught the disease last fall and says it really knocked him out” for six days. After three months, he still can’t taste properly and his sense of smell isn t back yet either, he says. Raabe is not one to minimize the dangers of the virus.
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Countdown to Lockdown
Germany Is Faring Poorly in the Second Wave of the Coronavirus
Germany has squandered the gains it made this spring in dealing with the coronavirus. A series of miscalculations by politicians in the fall has contributed to a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections in recent days. A second lockdown is coming.
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The intensive care unit at Essen s university hospital: It s increasingly looking like Germany s lockdown light in November was lost time.
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Three headlines from recent days: The Collm Hospital in the town of Oschatz in northern Saxony is filling up. It is only admitting patients who fall into the triage category red,” meaning people whose lives are acutely threatened.