Friedrich Merz has warned of the end of NATO as the incoming German Chancellor is set to defy Washington by teaming up with the losing Left-wing parties, including the extreme Greens, and freezing out surging AfD. The Telegraph has more.
Friedrich Merz, who is poised to become Germany’s next Chancellor, has warned NATO could be finished and Europe must prepare to build an alliance “independent” from the US.
In stark comments, Mr Merz, 69, leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), suggested the continent may have to “quickly” establish an “independent European defence capability”.
After exit polls predicted Mr Merz would win the election, Donald Trump hailed the result as a “great day for Germany and for the United States of America”.
But Mr Merz said Europe’s 80-year alliance with the US could be consigned to history, as he believes Mr Trump is “indifferent” about the continent in blunt remarks about his plans for his upcoming administration.
In stinging criticism of Mr Trump, the CDU leader likened the Trump administration’s tactics to Moscow after Elon Musk backed the far-Right AfD in the German election.
“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,” Mr Merz said.
“I never thought I would have to say something like this on a television program. But after Donald Trump’s statements last week at the latest, it is clear that the Americans, at least this part of the Americans, this administration, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.”
He added: “I am very curious to see how we are heading towards the Nato summit at the end of June … whether we will still be talking about Nato in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defence capability much more quickly.”
Following a campaign roiled by violent terror attacks, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the vote, followed by the AfD with 20.8%, preliminary results showed on Monday.
The result makes a far-Right [sic] party the main opposition for the first time since the Nazis.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-Left Social Democratic Party [SPD] was projected to come a distant third place at 16.4%, the worst result in the party’s history. It all but guarantees that he will soon stand down after overseeing a slump in Germany’s economy, partly caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Merz must now form a coalition government, but mainstream parties had vowed not to team up with the AfD. …
Mr Merz will now embark on lengthy coalition talks and is expected to seek an agreement with the SPD as well as the [extreme Left] Greens, who won 16.4% and 11.6% of the vote respectively, according to preliminary results.
The discussions will aim to freeze out second-place AfD, which is considered by other German parties to be too extreme to work with.
However, Alice Weidel, the AfD co-leader, said on Sunday night that she was ready to help Mr Merz form a Government that reflected the “will of Germany”.
The soon-to-be Chancellor could face pressure from the Trump administration in the coming months to let the AfD into his coalition, as Elon Musk and J.D. Vance, the US Vice President, have both called on German leaders to end their exclusion of the party.
Worth reading in full.
Writing in the Telegraph, Elisabeth Dampier says “the AfD isn’t far Right and it isn’t going away”:
Years of recession, widespread anger at mass migration, high energy prices, and the cost of living crisis will put the CDU under huge pressure to deliver. It will become increasingly difficult to justify excluding the AfD when the majority of the country have voted for Right-wing parties, only to be denied a Right-wing Government. And part of that blame lies with the other parties and the media (both domestic and foreign) constantly referring to the AfD as far-Right regardless of its common-sense policies.
The AfD has doubled its vote since 2021, but is still falling short of its own ambitions. It is no longer a phenomenon reserved to the former GDR, winning over many working-class voters from the SPD, increasingly including those in West Germany, and many first-time voters.
Campaigning as a fairly standard Right-wing populist party has enabled it to pick up this support, meaning that even if it is excluded from Government again by the ‘firewall’, it will only become more popular as the face of the real opposition to the miserable status quo. We can easily anticipate the fate of whatever national coalition forms; similar coalitions at the state level have led to political gridlock as they agree on nothing except stopping the AfD.
With Trump, Musk and Vance supporting the AfD, it can expect to do even better in future, until it becomes so big that the firewall can’t function any more. On the last day of the election campaign, Merz announced that, “The Left is over. There is no Left-wing majority and no more Left-wing politics in Germany any more.” Perhaps he needs to heed his own statement.
Read more here.
Stop Press: Eugyppius reports that with the failure of the radical Leftist BSW to reach the crucial 5% threshold for Parliamentary representation (by a mere 13,435 votes), a CDU/SPD coalition is now looking likely and the Greens will be pushed out of Government. This is likely to mean a betrayal of voters’ hopes for improved border security and reduced welfare spending, but may mean some of the most egregious Net Zero measures, such as the petrol and diesel car ban, will be axed.
A weak and directionless CDU/SPD coalition seems inevitable. Whether it will last a full term is uncertain, and its inevitable failures will continue to feed the opposition. The temptation to initiate proceedings to ban the AfD will grow in the coming years, and this will be a particularly dangerous period for the party. Among other things, a second round of dreaded state elections in East Germany is approaching in 2026. Sachsen-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will elect new state parliaments, and last night we got a preview of how that might go. Sachsen-Anhalt broke 37% for the AfD, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 35%. The firewall is on the verge of making the East ungovernable, and I doubt anyone believes it will survive the decade.
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I feel outraged on Hannah’s behalf and my heart goes out to that child. What 8yr old kid believes they’re in the wrong body? The only way they could feel like that is due to the toxic influence of adults around them. Everything’s back to front now, it’s insane.
The predators and sickos are being not only protected but empowered while anyone speaking out against blatant child abuse gets persecuted. How is this ever going to change and society get back to some semblance of normality?
How many laws is this perverted, sick, twisted, Gay-Tranny cult transgressing? How many useless child agencies, teachers, ministries and others in ‘the system’, do nothing ? Why is child abuse, child porn, deviancy, penis-woman porn etc tolerated though they violate existing laws? Then we have the morality or lack of it, within the useless teachers union and in households. We are really one f*ed up society. Sick, stupid supine. Go Hannah go, burn the bastards with truth. Nothing says civ decline like child abuse, mutilation, endless porn and perversion.
Fully support you Mogs.
Sat with my Dad at the moment and he had the BBC on – its the 6 o’clock prog. I never watch MS news. The BBC were in Liverpool promoting the garbage Eurovision. And guess who they were chatting to?
Two drag performers in full slap.
WTF is that about? At 6 o’clock?
Bloody sick.
Shall we place bets on the winners of this year’s Eurovision being trans? You just know it’s going to be full of rainbow flags too don’t you? It wouldn’t surprise me at all if it’s just one giant, elaborate woketard shindig on steroids. I never watch it anyway, although it’s easy to get sucked in to the sheer ‘pantomimeness’ of it all if somebody else has it on in the house. And while we’re at it, shall we bet the UK will place in the bottom 3? LOL The Netherlands didn’t even make it through to the finals but they didn’t have the required level of campness and weren’t sufficiently cringeworthy I don’t think..bit vanilla by today’s standard of entertainment.
The electoral destruction of the Conservative party may be a good start.
Hannah is a victim of appalling mistreatment by a lunatic cult that by any objective measure is dangerous and needs purging from our society (the cult and the views, not the the people, before some professional offence taker loon tries to accuse me of advocating genocide!) The most disgusting thing is that the hearing isn’t to be heard until 2024 – 15 months from now. That’s lawfare, pure and simple.
The lunatic cult has become the State Religion.
Whistleblowers have certain legal protections. By the sounds of it the school are in breach of their own responsibilities in treating safeguarding and whistleblowing activities so if it was me i’d be going full tonto on them for this alone.
Exactly so. Especially as a number of the organisations approached by the school in their witch hunt have told the school to bog off
The perverts have wormed their evil way into every nook and cranny of our society. Its sickening, but they warned us many years ago that they would destroy our societies from within many years ago. They even called themselves the ‘destroyers’ they were that sure of their mission.
Read up on the Frankfurt School and all will make sense. Evil personified doesn’t even get to the outside of what these people were about. Pre war Berlin will give you a clue..
The claim that people have a self that’s different from their physical existence, ie, that the conscious mind is not another physical function of the body, belongs necessarily to the domain of religion, ie, stuff (some) people believe to be true despite there’s no way to determine if it is actually true. Stonemaids and Merwall are religious organizations propagating a modern, pseudo-scientific religion. They’re obviously entitled to do that. But they’re decidedly not entitled to proselytize among elementary school children without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.
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This is just nonsense, when a real fight begins do you really think that people are going to be pre-occupied with pronouns and trasgenderism. It is just that the West, especially England and the United States are so obscenely wealthy that their minds turn to rot. We shall see I don’t think that the Anglo-Saxon countries are going to be quite so wealthy in a few months time.
If teachers can strike for other stuff then why not for this?
Those who disagree with the official ideology get punished.
Goodbye free speech.