by Lillian Garner | Apr 20, 2025 | University of Memphis
With the recent elections in Germany, there is a clear growth in favor of populist leaders. The election saw record-breaking voter turnout, with 82.5% of eligible voters participating. This is a significant jump from 76.6% in 2021. This shows that the German public is...
by Joshua Marsh | Apr 17, 2025 | Boston University
Firewalls and regional equivalents to it have recently come under heavy strain as nationalist far-right parties have found themselves relative electoral success in the past two years in Central and Western Europe. As it is used in the non-technological setting, the...
by Braden Jones | Nov 27, 2022 | Boston University
The Futures Forum On November 3, 2022, Germany hosted the inaugural Futures Forum in Muenster. The U.S. took part in the forum as part of a joint effort agreed upon in July 2021 by President Biden and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bring together an...
by Paul Kroyak | Dec 8, 2021 | Salem State University
On September 26th, 2021, Germany held an election which was unlike any other in the country’s last sixteen years. Angela Merkel is retiring after an overwhelmingly successful career that has shaped the scope of German and European politics for the foreseeable future....
by Reece Morgan | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
German democracy is slowly eroding, and it all comes back to Angela Merkel stepping down as chancellor. Well, that may be a bit dramatic, but the premise still stands: Angela Merkel’s relinquishing of power has extremely negative connotations for German...
