The rise of the right in Germany

Election results show the country is conforming to a trend towards the authoritarian, ultra-nationalist right in Western politics.

Angela Merkel won a fourth term as Germany's chancellor on Sept. 24, but her party had its worst result in around 70 years.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 27, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—Angela Merkel’s slogan in her campaign for a fourth term as chancellor was terminally bland and smug—“For a Germany in which we live well and love living”—but it did the job, sort of. Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is back as the largest party, so Merkel gets to form t...

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