The Intelligence: Alice Weidel’s alternative plan for Germany
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Our Berlin bureau chief sits down with the increasingly popular co-leader of the Alternative for Germany, the furthest-right of the country’s seven main political parties. How viable are her policy plans? The startup behind a reusable missile that could change American warfare (10:08). And, the quirkiest segments we have run in 2023 (18:31).
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| 1:03.7 | The Economist. |
| 1:13.8 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:17.3 | And I'm O'Re Ogunby. |
| 1:22.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:31.5 | The era of the reusable rocket is already here. They launch their cargo spacewards and then return to base. |
| 1:40.1 | Now that same idea is showing up in air defense. If the kind of missile you'd fire at a drone misses the mark, it can just come back. |
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| 2:07.3 | My colleague Vendez. |
| 2:12.0 | My colleague Vendeman von Bredo and I met Alice Vidal in her office. |
| 2:18.0 | And of course, Alice Vidal is the co-leader of the Alternative for Germany Party, or AFD, |
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