"Axis of Autocracies" – term originally derived from the Pirate Party

Berlin, April 2025 – In a keynote speech, CDU chairman Friedrich Merz spoke of an "axis of autocracies" – and thus triggered media attention. Hardly anyone knows that the German pirate party took advantage of this term as early as October 2023.Schoesch Davoodi, the party's foreign policy spokesman, wrote on BlueSky: "An axis of autocracies stirs up armed conflicts in Eastern Europe, the Near East, and Africa. Germany and the EU must adapt their …