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En Allemagne, la CDU-CSU a obtenu 33% des sièges et tout le monde s'accorde à dire que c'est à eux de former un gouvernement. En France, le NFP a... 33% des député·es : Macron ne leur a jamais proposé de gouverner et préfère un gouvernement qui tient grâce à la complicité du RN.

Something that was often repeated was that BSW would weaken AfD by taking part of its base. In the end, more voters shifted from either die Linke or the Greens to AfD than from AfD to BSW. Also, someone needs to do some in-depth reporting about these people shifting from Greens/Linke to AfD.

Lindner announces that he is retiring from politics. Gott sei Dank.

Only half of the kids are alright

Won't even be able to enjoy the FDP falling below 5%. This sucks so much.

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

Last week I joined the New Economics Podcast to speak about central banks and the importance of monetary-fiscal coordination Have a listen! neweconomics.org/2025/02/why-...

This reminds me of the monetary dialogues from the past couple of years. In their first intervention right-wing MEPs tell Lagarde that the ECB must act tougher on inflation. Only to then, seamlessly, complain about the negative impacts of higher interest rates.

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Como ya hay gente comparando los inhaladores con los jets privados voy a dar los datos aunque en la guía recomendamos no hacerlo: Inhaladores: ~400.000 t CO2 al año Jets Privados ~203.000 t CO2 al año La guía precisamente lo que dice es que se debe priorizar ante todo la salud del paciente.

The Schmitt has hit the fan.

Una companya de pis ha contractat HelloFresh, un acte d'autohumiliació, una claudicació absoluta de viure la vida com un adult funcional.

It will take a long time to rebuild this destruction of state capacity

"I am not the world's most important and famous deal maker," German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius just said in Munich. "But if I were, I would know that I don't take any essential point of negotiations off the table before the negotiations begin." #MSC2025

El pleno empleo es deseable porque facilita la incorporación de segmentos de población relativamente excluidos.

Benefits of hot labour markets: Euro Area edition

Really interesting stuff in this ECB Bulletin, I will be posting the bits I found more interesting below👇

This gem just landed in my mailbox

EU has six months to sort out the role of the euro as world currency...

I guess that the Chinese didn't get the "we need private capital because we are fiscally constrained" memo that's making the rounds in EU circles these days.