Really? What’s on the ballot in your country? If it is the party, then you vote for the party and with this you vote parliamentarians on the list into the european parliament. I get that the media reporting muddled this process, because frontrunners make for a more interesting coverage, but that is not how it works at all.
I think, that the phrase “ignoring the election results” is too harsh. You vote for parties, not persons. Of course, they usually nominate their frontrunners for the election campaign, but if they can’t ensure a majority in the elected parliament, what else should they do?
VdL definitely was a sketchy back room deal, I am talking more about the general principle here.
It probably isn’t with all the entailing health problems.
Yes, the German “Energiewende” is actually well thought through. The only fuckup was the reliance on russian gas, that put a damper on it.
You are completely ignoring, that the automotive industries could have seen the writing on the wall and switch to engineering electric vehicles years ago. They didn’t because they were complacent and now they are in trouble, because Tesla and the Chinese are leading the market. It’s the industries mindset of “if we fuck up, the government is gonna bail us out, because it needs our economic power”, that lead us into this problem.
They probably didn’t hear about her scandals in Germany…
Ah yes, the right way to fight fascism is to complain, that the world is shit and do nothing about it. That’s the spirit.
There are a lot of people, that fight against fascism daily, who are active in their communities and strive for a better world. The hopes of these people got crushed by the constant negative press and the climb of the right wing in election surveys. Now they see, that they have indeed a backing in the general population. Furthermore it was a huge AfD talking point, that they speak for the silent majority, which is why they attack the protests now by calling them fake or that the protestors were paid by the government.
It’s mostly the difference between police reported numbers and the ones from organizers. For Hamburg the police number is 50k, while the organizers said 160k for example. That’s why they wrote “more than 100k” everywhere. But I agree, that it’s really lowballing the extent of the demonstrations.
The number is probably the added up deficits on military spending throughout the years NATO exists.
A total market collapse and after that the economy does not recover? I guess we will have more serious problems than pensions then. These funds are highly diversified. It’s not like they gamble all on one company.
The digital euro “would end the problem of banking crises,” which “wouldn’t happen with a safe asset, the digital euro,” Fernández Ordóñez added — meaning the bulk of banking regulations, and the risk of taxpayer bailouts, could be removed too.
Yeah, that’s never going to happen.
She did not exclude a coalition, if the VVD got more votes. Now that Wilders would become prime minister, they are more hesitant about it.
Before the election I would have said unlikely, because both NSC and VVD ruled out a coalition with PVV. Afterwards the NSC already caved to “respect the choice of the voters” and the VVD also did not make a clear statement.
Well, they will undermine democracy where they can. Then they will ensure, that it gets harder and harder to vote against them and in the end your democracy ends up failed like in Hungary and Turkey. It’s the same playbook in every democratic country and people are ignoring it. But maybe you will think differently about that, when the new policies actually hit you and not only your neighbors.
Omtzigt just said, that he respects the voters and might jump over his shadow…
Yeah, it is shit, but it can be CO2 neutral, which gives it an edge over all the other fuels. It will most likely be used for everything, that can not be easily done with electricity.
Ukraine war and inflation could have served as reasons to break the debt limit, but the FDP was strictly against that. They think they can gain voters by strictly adhering to the debt limit.
The 60 billion problem could snowball to a 260 billion problem, if more “Sondervermögen” are deemed unconstitutional.
NSC might be up for it. A colleague told me, that the PvdA did not take the option of a left-leaning coalition with a center party in the past, so they might not this time around either.
No, Germany loves to watch Eurovision, we don’t care, that our own country sucks all the time. By now it’s more of a meme and people are betting, how bad it’s gonna be this year.