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Jim Wellard's avatar

The influence of Trump is dragging the Overton window of European politics to the right at a rapid rate.

I like Metz and his endearingly clumsy comments but he needs actions as well as words now

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Katja Hoyer's avatar

I hear he also feels his ad hoc communication style might go down better with the public than the rehearsed phrases of his predecessors, but he's also got a habit of making big statements and then doing the opposite or nothing.

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kayla's avatar

thanks for the clarification of the nuances of the word 'Stadtbild'. I had seen references to Merz's comment on social media and didn't fully understand what he was really saying.

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James McNeill's avatar

Maybe time for honesty, directness, and deliverable policies. Opaque comments serve no useful purpose. It made me think of the UK politician who said, this week I think, of essentially ethnically cleansing the UK to make it “culturally coherent”. An idiotic statement.

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Katja Hoyer's avatar

I think clear policies combined with a clear message as to what the aims of these policies are would be a sensible way forward, but discourse over such things really is tricky at the moment. There's a lot of fear on all sides, and that's not usually a recipe for level-headed debate.

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