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“ The Greens can be happy that they've improved in terms of results since the last election cycle, but they definitely did not fulfill expectations. Baerbock didn't meet the moment. At one point, the party was leading the pack, there were far greater expectations for them.”
“ Climate change is more on the mind of Germans than certainly other bigger issues. Foreign policy, [the] transatlantic relationship, that has not entered into this campaign at all. And climate change has been consistently an issue.”
“ It’s so unprecedented that it’s not even clear who talks with whom on whose invitation about what, because the Constitution does not have guardrails for a situation like that... [Merkel] was the steady hand at the helm, the steady presence.”
“ “I think the outcome of the [German] election was that broadly pro-European parties did very well. I mean, it was the far-left and the far-right that lost significantly, and then you had a shift from the incumbent CDU to the more pro-European, at least in fiscal terms, Greens and the SPD.”
“ Social Democrats aren’t offering a new package, they’re offering a centrist who makes you forget the party behind it.”
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“ The close results [in Germany] mean that it’s really the moment of the smaller parties to see who they want to go with.”
“ [Angela Merkel] really managed to bring other Europeans together on a few important issues and issues that were really important to transatlantic politics, so she has a strong legacy in that regard. She waited for the time to be right, and she managed to pull a lot of different people around the table together.”
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