{"id":8048,"date":"2025-02-22T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/shocked-by-trump-europe-turns-its-hopes-to-germanys-election\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:43:02","slug":"shocked-by-trump-europe-turns-its-hopes-to-germanys-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/shocked-by-trump-europe-turns-its-hopes-to-germanys-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocked by Trump, Europe Turns Its Hopes to Germany\u2019s Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the final days of Germany\u2019s abbreviated election campaign, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/world\/europe\/germany-election-trump.html\" title=\"\">task facing its next chancellor<\/a> has snapped into focus. It appears far more existential, for the country and for all of Europe, than almost anyone initially imagined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Germany\u2019s coalition government came apart just a day after the U.S. presidential election last November. As a result, a vote that was supposed to come this September is now set for Sunday. German leaders quickly realized that meant their campaign would be largely fought in the early days of President Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were nervous from the start. But they were nowhere near prepared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In just a few short weeks, the new Trump team has cut Ukraine and Europe out of negotiations to end the war with Russia, and embraced an aggressive, expansionist regime in Moscow that now breathes down Europe\u2019s neck. It also threatened to withdraw troops that have protected Germany for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">How Germans vote will now be a critical component of Europe\u2019s response to Mr. Trump\u2019s new world order, and will resonate far beyond their borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is not just another change of government\u201d under Mr. Trump, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/world\/europe\/germany-merz.html\" title=\"\">Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for chancellor<\/a>, warned on Friday after taking the stage for an arena rally in the western town of Oberhausen, \u201cbut a complete redrawing of the world map.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Perhaps no one has distilled the stakes of the election more succinctly \u2014 ironically enough \u2014 than the prime minister of Greece, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/12\/world\/europe\/greek-debt-crisis-pits-greeks-against-germans.html\" title=\"\">a country that famously clashed<\/a> with the Germans when it was digging out of a financial crisis a decade ago. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a fellow conservative, addressed Mr. Merz in a recorded message broadcast to 4,000 attendees at the Oberhausen rally. He reminded the audience of Greece\u2019s emergence from its economic woes, and encouraged Mr. Merz to engineer a similar turnaround.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDear Friedrich,\u201d Mr. Mitsotakis said, \u201cGermany and Europe need your leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Merz and other candidates, including the current center-left chancellor, Olaf Scholz, have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/world\/europe\/germany-election-trump.html\" title=\"\">warned of strained or even severed ties with the United States<\/a>, while vowing to fill a continental and global leadership vacuum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Merz openly questioned this past week whether the United States would remain a democracy much longer \u2014 or slip into full autocratic rule \u2014 and whether NATO would continue to exist. Mr. Scholz has said that Germany and Europe must be prepared to go it alone without Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The question is what any of the candidates will be able to do about that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Germany has been weakened by crises at home and abroad. The country\u2019s export-driven <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/world\/europe\/germany-election-economy.html\" title=\"\">industrial business model is broken<\/a>. Its economy is no larger today than it was five years ago, and it is losing ground to the rest of Europe and other wealthy nations on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/02\/21\/world\/europe\/germany-economy-election.html\" title=\"\">several key measures of economic health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Its domestic politics are mired in disputes about immigration, regulation, government spending and the mountains of paperwork that Germans must navigate to deal with daily tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the other challenges for Germany is that Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk, have also embraced a hard-right political party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, that revels in Nazi slogans and is ostracized by all of the country\u2019s mainstream parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Its likely second-place finish on Sunday is expected to heighten the sense of fracturing and potential paralysis in German politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The last German chancellor to be seen as a leader of Europe was Mr. Merz\u2019s longtime party rival, Angela Merkel. She did so in part by forging a partnership with President Barack Obama. The current moment might demand the opposite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/10\/world\/europe\/trump-europe-germany-france.html\" title=\"\">European head of state<\/a> has emerged to lead the continent in opposition to Mr. Trump\u2019s foreign policy or his economic plans, including threats of tariffs that could target European companies. Two leaders who might have filled that role, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, have been hurt in their efforts by low approval ratings at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nonetheless, they will travel separately to the White House this week, hoping to at least persuade Mr. Trump to slow the pace of his possible disengagement from Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It could be weeks or months for a new German leader to join them. Even after the votes are counted, the winner will need to form a governing coalition, a historically plodding process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Polls suggest that Mr. Merz will almost certainly not win a majority in Sunday\u2019s vote, and that he could enter with relatively low approval ratings for a chancellor-to-be. Still, his fresh face could provide a jolt Europe needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWith a waning or even unreliable U.S. presence on the continent,\u201d said Sudha David-Wilp, the vice president of external relations of the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, \u201cMerz could be the chancellor at the right moment to heed the call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The incumbent, Mr. Scholz, has been hindered globally ever since his government crumbled last fall. He is now polling in third place, behind Mr. Merz and the AfD \u2014 a party that no other mainstream party will invite into government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scholz has shed some of his stoic image in recent days and grown more combative, both toward Mr. Trump and toward Mr. Merz. He promised stronger German leadership to nearly 2,000 supporters at his final campaign stop on Friday. He was in Dortmund, one of the last remaining strongholds for his Social Democratic party, and just an hour down the road from Mr. Merz\u2019s rally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI find it irritating how everyone is now surprised by the current American administration. You could read all of this beforehand,\u201d Mr. Scholz said. \u201cAnd in this respect, we as Germany must also be capable of acting, namely by solving our problems in Germany and Europe and by sticking together in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe can do this,\u201d he added. \u201cThe European economic area, with its 450 million inhabitants, is larger and stronger than the United States. We can manage our own affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Polls suggest that Mr. Scholz is a long-shot to retain his job. The more intense guessing game among German political analysts is what sort of coalition might emerge from Sunday\u2019s result, with Mr. Merz at the helm \u2014 and how much it might help or hurt Mr. Merz\u2019s global ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If his Christian Democrats win around a third of the vote, or if only a few other parties pass an electoral threshold for taking seats in Parliament, Mr. Merz could likely form a government with just one other party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has said that would never be with the AfD, parts of which Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency considers extremist, though together they are expected to have a majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the vote is more splintered and more parties clear the threshold, Mr. Merz could be forced into a three-party coalition. As Mr. Scholz learned, three-party governments tend to be more fragile, and more prone to infighting that slows down major legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Being forced into a larger coalition, many Christian Democrats and their supporters concede, would almost certainly sap Mr. Merz\u2019s power to push deregulation, tax cuts and other domestic initiatives through Parliament in a bid to boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And if Mr. Merz is unable to reignite growth, analysts say, he will struggle to project the economic power needed to lead Europe \u2014 or to find the revenue to help Germany accelerate its rearmament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Merz betrayed few worries on Friday, flogging his potential future coalition partners, including the Social Democrats and the Green Party, in his speech in Oberhausen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe look forward to seeing you here again in a few years,\u201d he told the crowd \u2014 four years from now, perhaps, at the end of the next federal election campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThen we will look back at this year 2025, on the federal elections and the results,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then we will be asked whether we have correctly assessed the situation, and whether we have drawn the right conclusions from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/22\/world\/europe\/germany-election-trump.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final days of Germany\u2019s abbreviated election campaign, the task facing its next chancellor has snapped into focus. 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