A Scholz in the Dark: How is Germany’s Chancellor Doing?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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After replacing Angela Merkel at the end of last year, how is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s tenure going? Alex Andreou discusses the problems he faces with German author and journalist Annette Dittert. “Scholz has come to power by imitating Merkel, by promising no surprises.” “Scholz doesn’t seem to be able to make decisions when they need to be done.” “He is coming from this old school, appeasement policy towards Russia.” “People are still missing Merkel, Scholz cannot pull the EU together the way she could.” “In such a time of crisis, there is just not room for populism.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Alex Rees. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:12.0	Brexit or not Germany and France remain indisputably
1:17.3	Britain's most important European frenemies and Germany especially is in flux since the end of the Merkel era.
1:26.1	But one of the unfortunate side effects of the recent bin fire that is UK politics has been
1:31.3	to suck the oxygen out of world news when it comes to reporting.
1:35.6	News from the continent especially is rarely reported in an informative way.
1:40.8	Everything is filtered through a nationalist Brexit prison,
1:45.0	difficulties magnified and triumphs silenced.
1:49.0	My guest today is here to put this right and give us a frank update on Germany.
1:54.8	Annette Dittert is a multi award winning filmmaker, author and journalist.
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