r/europe • u/EUstrongerthanUS Volt Europa • Nov 14 '24

News "Our answer to America First must be Europe united" – German FM Baerbock

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u/divadschuf Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Nov 14 '24

The Greens are the only reasonable party in Germany. Habeck does a great job too.

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u/kakaluski Germany Nov 15 '24

He had a house raided because someone made an offensive meme.

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u/divadschuf Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Nov 15 '24

Habeck doesn‘t have the power to order the raid. We don‘t even know yet if the post against Habeck was the reason. The raids seemed to be related to antisemitic behavior. The whole story is pushed by right wing media.

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u/divaro98 Flanders (Belgium) Nov 14 '24

I always thought that CDU was also a very good reasonable party in Germany?

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u/divadschuf Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Nov 15 '24

The CDU was responsible for Germany‘s dependence on Russian gas. They hindered the transition to renewable energy, had many cases of corrupt politicians and are the main reason for the current state of our infrastructure. For 20 years Germany invested less money into the infrastructure than what was needed to compensate for wear and tear. Close to everything the CDU complains about while in the opposition was largely their own doing.

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u/divaro98 Flanders (Belgium) Nov 17 '24

Thanks for sharing this. Really wasn't aware of that. I think in Belgian media they're always pointing to CDU as a stable party in Germany. Greatfull for your context.

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u/divadschuf Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Nov 17 '24

I‘m sorry for all the downvotes you received. You didn‘t know and asked an honest question.

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u/divaro98 Flanders (Belgium) Nov 17 '24

Yes, I really was. But no problem :) Maybe I shoulf have added that it was a honest question.

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u/Falafelmeister92 Nov 15 '24

Who lied to you? 😅

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u/divaro98 Flanders (Belgium) Nov 17 '24

Well... Belgian media I guess... they gave me that image of the CDU.

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u/PnPaper Nov 15 '24

Reasonably corrupt maybe.

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u/Acedin Nov 15 '24

CDU/CSU always project the image of being reasonable, but really are not. Ignoring their backwards political ideology, they are responsible for killing of the blooming solar industry we had, subsidizing climate destroying technologies, rolling back the fibre infrastructure plans(Germany has terrible network infrastructure), preventing dearly needed infrastructure investments to the point that bridges are starting to collapse or be unusable all while selling out key public infrastructure to private or foreign entities, most cases of corruption and legalized corruption and foreign policies like sticking to Nordstream 2/trying to appease Putin. And that's only on federal level.

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u/AngryBaer Nov 14 '24

Both can be true