The Economist: Hard Right election win in Germany takes it into "uncharted territory"

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“Thuringia: CDU MP recommends exploratory [coalition] talks with AfD”[1]

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“This Pippi Longstocking policy, in which we say: ‘The AfD is a bad child, you are not allowed to play with them’, has failed,” she said. She assumes that the party will allow itself to be “disenchanted” in serious exploratory talks.


  1. She’s a (new) member of the Thuringia state parliament, not the federal parliament, but that is difficult to convey in the headline format ↩︎

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