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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in Germany following the European Union Parliament vote. |
0:08.4 | CDU, CSU combined, 30%. |
0:11.9 | The IFDA, after everything they threw at the IFDA, 16% around there. |
0:19.2 | Second place. |
0:21.1 | Schultz is SPD. Second place. Schultz. |
0:22.2 | Schultz is SPD in third place with something around 14%, something like that. |
0:28.0 | A drop from 2019. |
0:31.1 | And I believe the one party that got punished big time were the Greens, |
0:37.4 | Annalina and Habik, who went down to around 12, 11, 12% from 20, 20.5% in 2019. |
0:48.6 | They got punished. |
0:49.8 | Rightly so, because they are the ones that are, for the most part, running the government. |
0:55.7 | And while Schultz and the SPD got punished, I think German voters, they saw the Greens |
1:01.6 | as the party that has really sent Germany into a tailspin. |
1:07.7 | So anyway, what are your thoughts on the situation in Germany following the |
1:11.8 | Parliament elections, EU? I think these are very important results indeed. By the way, it's important |
1:17.7 | to say that they've also happened on the back of a very high turnout for European Parliament |
1:23.7 | elections. I believe it was somewhere around 65 plus percent. So this is a, you know, |
1:30.2 | this isn't just a case of, you know, low turn out anti-establishment parties doing well on the back |
1:42.7 | of it. This is a strong statement by German voters |
1:48.9 | about the course of the course of Germany has been taking. And I think here we can say confidently |
1:56.7 | that the unspoken topic, the elephant in the room, if you like, is the conflict in Ukraine |
2:06.8 | and the policy that the coalition has been following in connection with it. |
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