12/31/2023 0 Comments Podcast struggle session infinity wars![]() At SPD headquarters in Berlin, preparations are already being made for new elections this fall.Listen to this ep ad free on The Real News feed: And it would mark the beginning of a government crisis: It seems unrealistic to expect that the CDU and SPD would stay in power as a minority government or that they would bring the Greens on board to replace the CSU. It would also herald the end of a party system that has shaped Germany for the last 70 years and provided a fair degree of stability, particularly when compared to Germany's neighbors. And if that were in fact to happen, and there are plenty of indications it might, it wouldn't just be the end of Merkel's tenure. These sister parties haven't been friends for quite some time.Īccording to a survey commissioned by DER SPIEGEL, the majority of German citizens believe that the CDU and the CSU should split and go their separate ways. The steady stream of "compromises" on refugee policy could only briefly conceal just how bad the atmosphere had become in this partnership. ![]() In hindsight, it seems as though the conflict we are now seeing between the CDU and CSU is but the logical final act of a link that has always been slightly neurotic, but which transformed into open distrust and even hate since the fall of 2015. That’s why in the 1970s the CSU caves immediately in a similar fight. However, the CDU can capture voters in Bavaria. It's rather unlikely the CSU could be anything beyond Bavaria. ![]() " Yes, CDU organizes in Bavaria but CSU organizes elsewhere. My response to Alexander is easy enough to understand. If the purpose of this whole theatrical exercise was to shore up support for the CSU in the Bavarian state elections, we struggle to see how a last minute U-turn is going to achieve that result. But, given Italy's determination not to help Angela Merkel, it is hard to see how the CSU can come to that conclusion without a loss of face. What we don't know is whether the CSU is giving itself enough political room for manoeuvre to declare whatever is agreed at this week's summit as sufficiently encouraging. But the CSU's position is not all that hard to understand.īlume underlines the decision by the party's executive that there will have to be a national solution to the problem of incoming registered refugees if there is no European solution. This is an issue on which we support Merkel. We disagree with the CSU's position and strategy vehemently, because it constitutes a unilateral threat to Schengen. That interpretation eluded us once we read the interview in full. Today we noted an interview in FAZ with the CSU general secretary Markus Blume, which was also interpreted as a softening in the party's position. ![]() When Horst Seehofer gave Angela Merkel another 14 days, the move was described as a climb-down. We notice a lot of wishful thinking by German journalists when it comes to the conflict between the CDU and CSU. Here are some comments from this morning. Therefore, I believe the Seehofer-Merkel-Söder fracas is mostly theater.Įurointelligence, with who I mostly agree on what is happening but mostly disagree on desired outcomes does not agree with the theater thesis. CSU shrinks even more and becomes a irrelevant party once the Bavarians split between voting CDU & CSU.
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