Colour visions: a German-election lookahead
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The Economist
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party logos. We look at the most likely outcomes, and the smaller parties that may well play kingmakers. A series of scandals in Japan has propelled the country to a belated #MeToo crisis (10:35). And London’s once-abundant pie shops struggle with changing tastes and relocating clientele (16:53).
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| 0:45.9 | Yeah. The Economist Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:48.3 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:53.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Japan is late to this, but it might finally be having a Me Too moment. |
| 1:01.0 | Our correspondent reports that although attitudes are slow to change among the country's elite, |
| 1:06.0 | popular outrage about assault is rising. |
| 1:10.0 | And I take a little treatment popular outrage about assault is rising. |
| 1:19.0 | And I take a little trip to a vanishing slice of London life, the Pie and Mash shop. |
| 1:26.9 | We ask why this cheap but calerific meal is harder and harder to find and try something called liquor that isn't. |
| 1:35.8 | First up, though. |
| 1:43.1 | It's the last week before Germany's federal election and the parties are making their last ditch pitches. |
| 1:46.6 | On both Sunday and Monday, the top four party leaders went head-to-head to head to head in TV debates. |
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