machtpolitik

alternative Machtpolitik

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   Tensions have built up over the long years of Merkelian Machtpolitik and are emerging into the open, particularly in light of a mediocre vote-share at the election, yet another workaday coalition deal, the concession of the powerful finance ministry to the SPD, the allocation of the CDU’s few big cabinet jobs to inoffensively loyal Merkelites and the lack of hints at a succession plan at the top.

   2008 February 12, J.C., “German politics is in revolt against the “Merkel method””, in The Economist