Deborah Cole
Berlin Correspondent at The Guardian
Berlin correspondent, The Guardian and its Sunday paper, The Observer deborah.cole(at)https://t.co/I0cGfqKPzD http://deborahcole.bsky.soci
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole
Germany’s biggest mainstream parties have sealed an agreement to form a government keeping the far right out of power, as Europe’s top economy struggles to reverse a downturn and gird itself for the potentially catastrophic impact of new US tariffs. Prospective chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU announced the breakthrough deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), who had led the ruling coalition since 2021.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole
A Hollywood veteran’s biopic about an anti-Nazi resistance martyr, which was nearly engulfed by the Trump-era culture wars during its US release, is on its way to Europe this month, with the director hoping its message against the extreme right lands this time.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole
Six beaming election winners huddled around a table and not a woman among them: a viral social media image of the man likely to be Germany’s next chancellor and his transition team has revived longstanding questions about whether Friedrich Merz can bridge a persistent gender gap. “Not great optics” was among the more generous of the thousands of comments on the post by Merz’s Bavarian ally Markus Söder, which seemed to hark back to another time.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole
German voters yearning for a steady hand in troubled times handed a clear victory to the conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz in Sunday’s watershed election, punishing the centre-left-led alliance of Olaf Scholz. But a closer look at the results of the snap election, triggered when Scholz’s government collapsed in acrimony in November, reveals a divided nation increasingly drifting to the fringes as dissatisfaction with the mainstream parties mounts.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Deborah Cole |Helen Sullivan
Elon Musk called the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) to congratulate her on the party’s performance in Sunday’s election after it doubled its support from the last election. Alice Weidel hinted she had slept through an overnight attempt to reach her by the Trump adviser and Tesla CEO, who had repeatedly intervened in the German campaign on her behalf.
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