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A cleverer solution than the Brandmauer?

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Jörg Luyken
Oct 14, 2026
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Dear Reader,

I have been in bed sick so far this week, so will have to keep this newsletter short.

After the state election in Berlin, won by the hard-left Die Linke, the Greens and Social Democrats are following a strategy that I have long said would be a more effective solution than the rather idiotic system of the Brandmauer.

Instead of rejecting a coal…

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