Merz falters, far right surges
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz struggled to sway German voters as a surging far right and recent CDU defeats prompted doubts about Berlin’s leadership, while North Rhine-Westphalia’s Hendrik Wüst waited as chancellor-in-waiting.
In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang dissects the recent CDU electoral disasters while, in the second segment, I argue that Europe's wholesale slump needs to be blamed primarily on the compromised, defeated, co-opted Centre Left www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0h...
Germany can't recover from this - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
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September 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang dissects the recent CDU electoral disasters while, in the second segment, I argue that Europe's wholesale slump needs to be blamed primarily on the compromised, defeated, co-opted Centre Left www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0h...