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Too much democracy... or not enough?

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Jörg Luyken
Apr 28, 2024
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Dear Reader,

It was not so long ago that Germany was governed by a series of ‘grand coalitions’ made up of the two major Volksparteien (people’s parties). With the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) in charge and the Social Democrats as their assistants, these coalitions managed to get their work done with the leas…

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