The Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) is pushing a heady mix of Prussian imperial nostalgia and a shrewd form of Euroscepticism that catches the mood of post-globalist German voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The insurgent Right-wing party of Alice Weidel<\/a> \u2013 a gay, Hayekian, Mandarin-speaking Goldman Sachs alumna, who worked for the Bank of China and wrote a paper on the Chinese pension system \u2013 is flying high as elections approach next month, reaching 22pc in the latest INSA poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The German media fears that the \u201cshy voter syndrome\u201d may understate the strength of the AfD<\/a> support. If the final tally reaches the mid-20s, it could leave Germany in much the same state of political paralysis as France, unable to form a stable government on the broken rubble of the old party system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreign investors have persuaded themselves that Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democrat leader<\/a>, is going to win a landslide on a manifesto of free-market reform, fiscal stimulus and a blitz of investment. Germany is more likely to end up with the immobilism of another grand coalition, unable to rid itself of a social democrat dinosaur wedded to rust bowl industries and the obsolete model of the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p> Germany\u2019s \u2018Dexit\u2019 party is becoming a serious threat to the European project https:\/\/t.co\/mI9zkP5sH4<\/a> via @@YahooNews<\/a><\/p>— Dan Brosman (@dan_brosman) January 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>