German Government Collapse

Germany is trying to fix their increasing debt crisis. Unfortunately, our election of Trump applies more pressure on their economy because of Trump's tariff policies. This caused a huge fight and resulted in the firing of certain government official. In the end, it collapsed. I will post a video on it.

From what I understand, the system is still together.

One thing that caught my attention was that the next chancellor will probably be from the Christian conservative party (CDU)

let's hope so!!

This thread reminds me that I ought to start giving more attention to the political leaders in the EU.... Thanks guys!


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That would be Friedrich Merz (click on his name for Wiki page about him):

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the Christian conservative party (CDU) applies the principles of Christian democracy and emphasizes the "Christian understanding of humans and their responsibility toward God". However, CDU membership consists of people adhering to a variety of religions as well as non-religious individuals. The CDU's policies derive from political Catholicism, Catholic social teaching and political Protestantism as well as economic liberalism and national conservatism. The party has adopted more liberal economic policies since Helmut Kohl's term in office as the Chancellor of Germany (1982–1998).
As a conservative party, the CDU supports stronger punishments of crimes and involvement on the part of the Bundeswehr in cases of domestic anti-terrorism offensives. In terms of immigrants, the CDU supports initiatives to integrate immigrants through language courses and aims to further control immigration. Dual citizenship should only be allowed in exceptional cases.
In terms of foreign policy, the CDU commits itself to European integration and a strong relation with the United States. In the European Union, the party opposes the entry of Turkey, preferring instead a privileged partnership. In addition to citing various human rights violations, the CDU also believes that Turkey's unwillingness to recognise Cyprus as an independent sovereign state contradicts the European Union policy that its members must recognise the existence of one another.
The CDU has governed in four federal-level and numerous state-level Grand Coalitions with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as well as in state and local-level coalitions with the Alliance 90/The Greens. The CDU has an official party congress adjudication that prohibits coalitions and any sort of cooperation with either The Left or the Alternative for Germany.[57]
CDU officially prohibits any cooperation with the AfD, but does not clearly define what that means. In the eastern federal states, however, there is ongoing tolerance or cooperation of CDU at the local and district level with the right-wing radical AfD.[58][59][60] CDU-head Friedrich Merz polarizes with political approaches to the AfD and called the CDU in 2023 one «Alternative with substance».[61] Political observers from abroad say that the CDU's boundaries to the far-right are eroding.[62][63]

Germany has made some really bad choices. They've fallen behind in terms of progress. Financially they're in trouble. It was because Hitler promised to make Germany great again and restore her fortunes that he was able to get elected. Hopefully the same thing won't happen again.

Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why

What to know about Germany's government crisis | AP News

I hate to see this having lived in Germany for 7 years. But that was prior to the reunification with East Germany. That particular event was to be celebrated, but it was the beginning of the fall of the West German economy.