Tag: Germany
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SPD the biggest winner in German Election
On Sunday, September 26th Europe’s largest economy, Germany, held a historic election. While the results have yet to be finalized it is projected that the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) received a plurality of the vote with 26%, ahead of their main rival the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) at 24.5%. Assuming the outcome stands it will […]
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German City Declares “Nazi Emergency”
Last week, the Dresden city council passed a largely symbolic resolution that condemned the far-right extremist movement PEGIDA and called on the city’s civil servants to protect minority rights in-the-midst-of “growing anti-immigrant sentiment” in the city. PEGIDA, which stands for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West” has been criticized for holding anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic […]
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Munich Security Conference
The annual Munich Security Conference convened last week. This event brought together leading policymakers from around the world to discuss and exchange views on issues of global security. German Chancellor Angela Merkel set the tone for the conference by calling for a commitment to multilateralism and calling out actions by the United States, Russia, and […]