With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
As a Hungarian, and don’t take this the wrong way, how is German politics so fucked up? We watched money flow to Orbán uncounted that he used to very transparently destroy democracy in Hungary as well as provide cheap labour to Germany over the past 10 years, and it basically prevented the EU from being efficient in a response to the Ukraine crisis among other things.
How is it that in Germany, the only people to elect are either Russophilic idiots or people whose relationship to the EU is “how can we ratfuck this thing to the max to get more money out of it”? Who is a halfway decent politician in Germany? Everyone seems mostly both incompetent and malicious to differing degrees.
German politicians and politics are deeply provincial, and most simply don’t care about the effects of their politics on other european countries as long as it is good in the short term for some local business from their constituency.
As a Hungarian, and don’t take this the wrong way, how is German politics so fucked up? We watched money flow to Orbán uncounted that he used to very transparently destroy democracy in Hungary as well as provide cheap labour to Germany over the past 10 years, and it basically prevented the EU from being efficient in a response to the Ukraine crisis among other things.
How is it that in Germany, the only people to elect are either Russophilic idiots or people whose relationship to the EU is “how can we ratfuck this thing to the max to get more money out of it”? Who is a halfway decent politician in Germany? Everyone seems mostly both incompetent and malicious to differing degrees.
German politicians and politics are deeply provincial, and most simply don’t care about the effects of their politics on other european countries as long as it is good in the short term for some local business from their constituency.
Same as Hungary, which media company should provide the necessary information for a meaningful vote?
Blatant corruption, party politics and a decoupling of the politicians from reality to an absurd degree
Edit: no offense taken btw, our politics are a shit show