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Germany’s Left Party leaders pay homage to arch-reactionary Wolfgang Schäuble
Since Wolfgang Schäuble’s death on December 26, politicians and the media have been lavishing praise on the long-serving Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party chairman and Finance and Interior Minister
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German Constitutional Court rules climate change fund is unconstitutional—A signal for further social cuts
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling on the federal government’s Climate Change Fund is not a legal, but a political decision. It reduces the previously agreed budget by €60 billion in one fell swoop and is a signal for further social spending cuts.
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Germany gets a new antiwar party, this time on the left
Its appeal depends largely on whether voters agree that Berlin’s economic woes can be blamed on the country’s Ukraine war policy.
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Surprise on the left
Surprise, surprise! Things worked out quite differently than expected at the congress of the LINKE, the left-wing party.