<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[German politics]]></title><description><![CDATA[German politics]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/stream/0248d815-2074-4259-9848-806189cbecaa</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:22:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ft.com/stream/0248d815-2074-4259-9848-806189cbecaa?format=rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2024. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. 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lender]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/701cb1d5-39fa-40b4-91cb-be702ae90e18</link><guid isPermaLink="false">701cb1d5-39fa-40b4-91cb-be702ae90e18</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:59:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woes of Olaf Scholz ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Polls find centre-left politician is least popular chancellor since German reunification]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a7f7b1e8-589c-47a0-962c-724ba68fee1d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a7f7b1e8-589c-47a0-962c-724ba68fee1d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 04:00:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany upsets its neighbours with border clampdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Berlin plans to carry out checks at all land frontiers in a bid to stem illegal migration]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5c01c3ce-b0a8-4995-ad2f-a4c9681bcb7f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c01c3ce-b0a8-4995-ad2f-a4c9681bcb7f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:37:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[German union vows to fight UniCredit move on Commerzbank ‘tooth and nail’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Berlin ‘naive’ to put key lender to Mittelstand companies on the line, says Verdi]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/3a107d56-d942-4d0c-a6d8-af2c205a3baa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3a107d56-d942-4d0c-a6d8-af2c205a3baa</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:09:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany extends temporary controls to all its land borders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government steps up response to demand for tougher line on irregular immigration]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8e94c7bb-261d-4258-93ee-96c284433ed8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8e94c7bb-261d-4258-93ee-96c284433ed8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:00:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germans reel from an uncomfortable week politically and economically ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good results for the far-right AfD in regional elections came as VW dealt a blow to manufacturing jobs]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/0b8c8b91-59bf-4694-8e18-429aa4dd8eaa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0b8c8b91-59bf-4694-8e18-429aa4dd8eaa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 10:00:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The German far right and the scars of reunification]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than three decades after the end of communist rule, the victory of the AfD in a state election in the east underlines a lingering political divide ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d128f308-bc1f-4737-a679-43734124e2b6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d128f308-bc1f-4737-a679-43734124e2b6</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:19:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Munich police shoot gunman outside Israeli consulate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Incident comes on anniversary of 1972 Olympic Games terror attacks in city]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d1e9cb36-7db7-4409-905c-bae3967e93cf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d1e9cb36-7db7-4409-905c-bae3967e93cf</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:33:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hard-left Russophiles playing kingmakers in Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two state election results force conservative CDU into awkward negotiations with ex-Communist Sahra Wagenknecht]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a4550824-443d-4d37-b923-5e9e24f31717</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a4550824-443d-4d37-b923-5e9e24f31717</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:00:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choice facing Germany’s far right: radicalism or power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alternative for Germany won its first regional election but still has no viable path to govern]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/875bbe1b-2e46-43b6-ba87-ae288eda9392</link><guid 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victory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Olaf Scholz says AfD is ‘damaging’ country after its win in eastern state]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7f4844b1-b2bd-4503-b481-ac0471a1b75b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7f4844b1-b2bd-4503-b481-ac0471a1b75b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:26:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany’s far-right AfD makes history]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alternative for Germany wins a regional election for the first time since WWII.]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d464b01b-1b44-46f1-965a-e956a9b0e81d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d464b01b-1b44-46f1-965a-e956a9b0e81d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:00:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far-right Alternative for Germany wins first regional election]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poll delivers disastrous results for parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition government]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/217b4179-6fda-418b-8517-10fb7c1aae27</link><guid isPermaLink="false">217b4179-6fda-418b-8517-10fb7c1aae27</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:06:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Populists prevail in eastern Germany as wounds of past remain raw]]></title><description><![CDATA[Far-right Alternative for Germany party has upended political logic in regional elections]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/10fe5b01-51ef-4411-9df8-67f001c8aa78</link><guid isPermaLink="false">10fe5b01-51ef-4411-9df8-67f001c8aa78</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:42:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[France and Germany: clouds darken at the dawn of a new EU era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political and economic ills are growing in bloc’s two main states as the next five-year leadership cycle starts in Brussels ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/239d88fa-e16e-4eac-8602-6c91f0930f43</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany to cut benefits for refugees facing deportation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Measures, which include a ban on knives at public events, follow outrage over terror attack in western city last week ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ea0c2d96-0b08-406d-b143-fcea0c59592f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ea0c2d96-0b08-406d-b143-fcea0c59592f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:15:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Populists poised for victory in east German polls as Scholz faces rout]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three parties in coalition government set to be given a drubbing on Sunday by frustrated voters]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/6880ccff-b7f1-4e15-a658-aeed4666cb62</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6880ccff-b7f1-4e15-a658-aeed4666cb62</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:00:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[German chancellor Olaf Scholz urges talks on tougher immigration policy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Call for dialogue with opposition and regions follows deadly knife attack by a suspected Syrian national]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/e37c4c24-eaff-4c57-80df-1fcfd9838ecd</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e37c4c24-eaff-4c57-80df-1fcfd9838ecd</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:15:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Germany’s stabbing attack has rekindled EU’s far-right fears]]></title><description><![CDATA[Also in this newsletter: Bulgaria calls its seventh general election in three years]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1333c7f7-3415-4f52-b9c2-3d86d8a11995</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1333c7f7-3415-4f52-b9c2-3d86d8a11995</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:00:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knife attack puts immigration top of German political agenda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Far right seizes on arrest of Syrian immigrant suspected of killing three people ahead of regional elections]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/0f95c4c3-bfe1-4c17-bd4e-d14b6937399d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0f95c4c3-bfe1-4c17-bd4e-d14b6937399d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 12:05:18 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>