Right turn at a broken traffic light: Germany’s AfD
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After the collapse of the governing “traffic light” coalition in December, the hard-right AfD has a renewed swagger. How long can other parties keep it from power? We speak with Syrian refugees heading home at last, following the defenestration of Bashar al-Assad (10:30). And remembering David Lynch, a bright-eyed director of unsettlingly dark films and television (19:34).
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| 0:51.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:58.6 | Millions of people left Syria during the Assad years. |
| 1:02.7 | Now the regime has been toppled what's it like for those who are returning? |
| 1:08.0 | Our correspondent meets two refugees who've finally been reunited with their families. |
| 1:14.8 | And cinema history may never again know a director so different from his films. |
| 1:18.5 | Our obituaries editor explores the life of David Lynch, |
| 1:25.7 | whose cheery gentle ways belied a mind constantly thinking about what darkness lies beneath the normal. First up, though. |
| 1:30.3 | In exactly a month, Germans will vote in a federal election. |
| 1:51.4 | Late last year, the Chancellor Olaf Schultz called a vote of no confidence in his endlessly squabbling coalition government. |
| 1:53.8 | A vote he knew he would lose. |
| 2:00.0 | Bad news for him, his center-left Social Democrat Party is now a distant third in the polls. |
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