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brief update: I'm now back in Berlin full-time. What Germany stories should the Economist cover? Send me your ideas/invite me to your events/suggest meeting for coffee etc. DMs open
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Tom Nuttall retweeted
The US midterms offer a clear winning strategy for the European left:
- Don't be in government.
- Have an extremely unpopular and delusional incumbent.
- Hope he starts a war nobody understands.
- Hope for soaring gas prices and inflation.
- Face historically weak candidates.
- Don't be in government.
- Have an extremely unpopular and delusional incumbent.
- Hope he starts a war nobody understands.
- Hope for soaring gas prices and inflation.
- Face historically weak candidates.
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Fair to say that tonight's @TableBriefings newsletter has a rather arresting introduction (translated version below)
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52,000 Russian losses - half killed, half severely wounded - in October 2026, according to @bundeskanzler - the highest monthly figure since the war began.
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The wave of European fridge cyber-attacks has reached Germany.
Rewe und Edeka – Deutscher Supermarkt meldet 50-Grad-Attacke auf Kühlschränke to.welt.de/co6NqF2
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I'd have guessed Juan Atkins was much older. Means he was barely out of his teens when he helped invent one of the signature sounds of the late 20th/early 21st century. Not bad! RIP
RIP Juan Atkins. Devastating, so young, 64. A titanic presence and vision. one of the true forefathers of modern music, so much of the blueprint of which was forged in Detroit. deserved much longer to enjoy his legacy
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"In many countries, musicians have emerged as the most authentic—and at times the most dangerous—voices of dissent."
My piece on political music in Africa in this week's @TheEconomist
economist.com/interactive/in…
My piece on political music in Africa in this week's @TheEconomist
economist.com/interactive/in…
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The increasingly farcical saga of Berlin's attempt to put together a leftist government is v dispiriting, but for an Anglo journalist it is at least modestly heartening to see Germany's wretched interview-authorisation process at the heart of the shitshow.
spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
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Tom Nuttall retweeted
On Lagarde's exit and the questions that defined her tenure, from @COdendahl & co:
"She will depart in February, nine months ahead of schedule, at a moment of jeopardy. Her home country, France—where she was once finance minister—is going fiscally rogue."
economist.com/finance-and-ec…
"She will depart in February, nine months ahead of schedule, at a moment of jeopardy. Her home country, France—where she was once finance minister—is going fiscally rogue."
economist.com/finance-and-ec…
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From the AfD leaks: fascinating new details on the scale of Alice Weidel's fear, a decade ago, of Björn Höcke's growing influence in the party.
Weidel has since made peace with Höcke & pals, cementing the influence of the AfD's völkisch wing. politico.eu/article/leaked…
Weidel has since made peace with Höcke & pals, cementing the influence of the AfD's völkisch wing. politico.eu/article/leaked…
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Tom Nuttall retweeted
Clear erosion of public support for standing with 🇺🇦.
43% say too much 🇩🇪 support for 🇺🇦.
41% say level is just right.
Only 12% say 🇩🇪does too little.
65% of East Germans and 90% of AfD supports say 🇩🇪is doing too much.
(RTL/n-tv Trendbarometer/forsa)
43% say too much 🇩🇪 support for 🇺🇦.
41% say level is just right.
Only 12% say 🇩🇪does too little.
65% of East Germans and 90% of AfD supports say 🇩🇪is doing too much.
(RTL/n-tv Trendbarometer/forsa)
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My dispatch from the Junge Union conference in Bonn, where the Left is the enemy everyone can agree on and almost everybody seems to be called Johannes. economist.com/europe/2026/10…
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Tom Nuttall retweeted
@tom_nuttall The Hanning and Block stories is also very old school BRD noir
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After 48 hours in Bonn I'm convinced we're on the cusp of a huge Adenauer revival. De Gaulle gets a five hour doc for ten years as president; Adenauer was in charge for 14, just saying...
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Berlin appears headed for a government headed by Die Linke, a party that critics allege is riddled with antisemites.
The provisional agreement between DL, the SPD and Greens includes plans to expropriate some corporate landlords, Linke's signature policy.
The provisional agreement between DL, the SPD and Greens includes plans to expropriate some corporate landlords, Linke's signature policy.
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The biggest applause at the CDU's youth branch conf this w/e was reserved for attacks on Linke rather than the AfD.
Two likely consequences from the Berlin development, CDU folk told me:
- weakening of anti-AfD firewall
- in the national coalition, CDU will make the SPD squirm
Two likely consequences from the Berlin development, CDU folk told me:
- weakening of anti-AfD firewall
- in the national coalition, CDU will make the SPD squirm
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CDUers are furious, and it's another tiger to ride for Merz. But in the short term this may help him out by providing a common enemy for the fractious CDU to rage against, rather than tearing itself apart.
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Merz: "it was encouraging to see how big the support was [at the EU summit] for this proposal [anti-China kill switch] pushing back against trade practices coming from certain parts of the world. No one expressed any reservations.#DLT26 #Voldemort
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The head of the CDU's youth wing, Johannes Winkel, is delivering a quietly devastating speech to the "Mutterpartei"
- we use the term 'reform' for measures that aren't reforms at all
- CDU is conducting politics as if it was 2010
-no guarantee of perpetuity for mainstream parties
- we use the term 'reform' for measures that aren't reforms at all
- CDU is conducting politics as if it was 2010
-no guarantee of perpetuity for mainstream parties
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En route to Bonn for the Junge Union jamboree - DMs open for any followers who are there and would like to meet!
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Our hour-long Insider interview with Alice Weidel is now live for subscribers.
economist.com/insider/the-in…
economist.com/insider/the-in…
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