Florian Foos

Agree with this take: kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-figure... This is not a good result for the Greens. Burnham's strategy of turning left on the economy and signalling on a couple of issues such as Gaza and the EU seems to be working, at least for now.

Worrying that 1/3 of CDU deputies in Saxony Anhalt very likely crossed over and voted for the AfD state parliament speaker.

Unless I‘m missing something, it looks very unlikely that Muresan will get anywhere close to enough MPs to support his minority government at the investiture vote tomorrow and this has been clear for some time, so it‘s a bit of a puzzle to me why we are going through the motions here.

I guess there is a point to drawing a dividing line and letting the PSD-AUR majority look a bit ridiculous in hearings, but it doesn’t make forming a government any easier.

That was overall a good speech from Burnham with some big ideas including electoral reform, social care reform and an open-ended relationship with the EU. The strategy here is to set out a bold progressive agenda, but leave implementation for after an election (or when there is fiscal room re care).

This is a strategy of having it both ways- sticking to fiscal rules and thinking big. Making big promises that you don’t have to implement immediately- it’s clever because „small steps now, big steps later“ gets centre-left parties out of the immediate fiscal constraint, at least for a while.

Might be a bit controversial, but a party that counts amongst its potential Presidential candidates politicians of the caliber of Ossoff and AOC is maybe not quite as badly in crisis as it appears. There is a talented millennial generation ready to lead.

Was on the morning flight from Cluj to Bucharest & spotted the designated Minister of Justice, the independent reformist, former judge & BBU Law Prof Andrea Chiș, a few rows down. She is known for speaking out in the Recorder documentary "Captured Justice" ...

Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's Ambassador to Greece, allegedly claimed as much at a dinner with a Greek minister & there were meetings between the PSD Party President & Guilfoyle in spring.

Was on the morning flight from Cluj to Bucharest & spotted the designated Minister of Justice, the independent reformist, former judge & BBU Law Prof Andrea Chiș, a few rows down. She is known for speaking out in the Recorder documentary "Captured Justice" ...

... which rocked the Romanian justice system earlier this year. Romania is heading for a highly uncertain investiture vote this Wednesday for a reformist minority government headed by Siegfried Muresan, the national-liberal MEP, supported by PNL, USR & UDMR (the Hungarian minority).

Burnham sticks to his guns re exclusives for the Sun. Born in Merseyside he grew up in the North West.As Minister he helped set up the Hillsborough Independent Panel: www.bbc.com/news/article.... Here are my thoughts from '23 about Labour's relationship with the press: fabians.org.uk/pressing-the...

Merz speaking early & decisively after the exit polls was obviously meant to end any debate about his position(s) before they properly started. The problem is that as the night unfolds, the CDU’s scores in both states have weakened and the CDUs position looks more fragile than predicted in exits.

It’s all very close, but they are currently at exactly 5.0% in MV and one or two seat short of a majority with SPD & Greens in Berlin (I assume the plan there was to put pressure on the SPD and Greens not to go into coalition with the Left).

Interesting and very well informed article by Johanna Ewald (in German) discussing the TV debate format between MP Schwesig and the AfD’s Holm before the MVP state election on Sunday - thanks for engaging with our work with @dianebolet.bsky.social: www.morgenpost.de/kultur/tv-st...

I agree with much of her analysis regarding fact checking, two party format and the concerns about normalization.