Daily: Life after Mutti? GERMANY’s post-Merkel future

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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After an initial COVID response that was lauded as an example to the world, Germany has experienced an unexpectedly harsh second wave. What will that mean for the twilight of the Merkel Era? Is Germany’s strange opposition coalition of libertarians, alt.rightists and anti-vaxxers just fringe politics or something more serious? And what comes after Merkel? The Economist’s Berlin bureau chief Tom Nuttall explains all to Justin Quirk. “When the COVID numbers are totted up, Germany will still turn out to be one of the places in Europe where you wanted to be” “When the pandemic hit, support for Merkel’s Christian Democrats shot up.” “The Green Party in Germany really wants power. It craves it. And it’s positioned itself very much as a centrist party.” “The big question is, how big is the Merkel Bonus for the CDU?” Presented by Justin Quirk. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.1	to the coronavirus pandemic was so successful that Germany was lauded as a prime example of how to do
1:24.6	COVID right. But the second wave of the virus has been much worse with over 65,000
1:29.8	deaths, a new hard lockdown and this week the surprise closure of borders with
1:34.3	both Austria and the Czech Republic. The vaccine rollout is going so badly with just
1:38.8	4% of residents getting the jab that it's imperiling Angela Merkel's legacy.
1:43.0	After 15 years in power, Merkel will leave the stage in September's general election,
1:47.3	and she might leave under a cloud as a result.
1:49.4	So what does the future have in store for Germany after Moody and how did its COVID success
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