Extremists are now polling well in the former East Germany
It may seem odd that 33 years after the cold war ended Germany’s leader should need to persuade a fellow citizen that their country, Europe’s weightiest by population and, is independent. A clue lies in where this exchange happened: Cottbus, a small city at the heart of the once-vital coal industry of the once-proud country of East Germany.
These differences matter. The east German electorate includes a big proportion of free-floaters, attached to no party. This encourages traditional parties, such as Mr Scholz’s Social Democrats, to try extra-hard to woo them. Politicians may also hesitate to act—the chancellor was accused last year of being slow to release German-made Leopard tanks for Ukraine—for fear of alienating the lilac jumpers.
Germany’s two parts are in fact slowly converging. The income gap, in particular, is shrinking, helped by big investments from firms such as Infineon, Intel and Tesla. But as jolts such as the war in Ukraine expose, the underlying fissures in German society may take yet another generation to close.Europe
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