eugyppius: a plague chronicle

Domestic spy agency declares Alternative für Deutschland to be a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organisation, as authorities inch closer to banning the party

Towards a Theory of Political Stupidity

German prosecutors charge woman for reproducing Nazi symbols after she publishes an image of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach raising his arm at suspicious angle

CDU set all of their political capital on fire for debt brake overhaul, literally forget about EU fiscal rules that prohibit their spending orgy anyway

Banning Alternative für Deutschland

Friedrich Merz once promised to cut AfD support in half. He has doubled it instead.

The NGO Menace

Spring Open Thread

Incoming German government from hell enthusiastically promises to artificially inflate energy prices, regrets that the social welfare state must absorb ever more of our income

Why the Liberation Day tariffs were faintly terrifying and why it is probably good that Trump has walked the greater part of them back

German journalist sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme poking fun at the Interior Minister's lack of commitment to free speech

TARIFF CRAZY OPEN THREAD: Trump escalates towards nuclear trade war with China, EU Commission in a rare fit of sanity offers the Americans a zero-for-zero tariff deal on industrial goods