The abhorrent paradox of the 2025 German federal elections - Euronews - Yanis Varoufakis

The paradox of German politics is that, as the great defender of the US military presence in Europe, it is now seeking to promote strategic autonomy, due to the hostility with which the Trump administration is behaving.

The Secretary of Day25, Yiannis Varoufakis, a guest of Euronews, spoke about the outcome of the German federal elections, stating that: “These German federal elections can only be described as a negative paradox: At the same time insignificant — in the sense that they will end up in another variant of the same, almost permanent, common, a split of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, perhaps with a small dose of pseudo-Greens — the same coa…

These German federal elections can only be described as a negative paradox: At once insignificant – in the sense that they will result in another variation of the same, almost permanent, coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, perhaps with a small dose of pseudo-Greens – the same coalition that set Germany on the path to continuous stagnation. And, at the same time, a crushing result – in the sense that it marks the enormous rise …