The CDU\u2019s Friedrich Merz has shattered the taboo that had underpinned German politics since the war. The unthinkable is now more possible<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The tectonic plates are shifting in German politics. A momentous past week<\/a> has plunged the country into uncertainty \u2013 and not just about the outcome of the snap general election on 23 February. The mainstream parties are at each other\u2019s throats, while the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) is jubilant. <\/strong><\/p>\n The firewall (\u201cBrandmauer\u201d) against the extreme right, which has held since the end of the second world war, is showing big cracks<\/a>. Europe\u2019s most powerful country may be entering a phase of democratic instability.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CDU\u2019s Friedrich Merz has shattered the taboo that had underpinned German politics since the war. The unthinkable is now more possible The tectonic plates are shifting in German politics. A momentous past week has plunged the country into uncertainty \u2013 and not just about the outcome of the snap general election on 23 February. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}