Pension, health insurance, state of the military, infrastructure, immigrants, the right. Not necessarily in that order, but those are the top problems. There are many more on that list.
A lot of those issues are budget-related, so those problems could be solved by properly taxing the rich, or at least making sure the rich actually pay the little they legally have to contribute, but this is 100% against the grain of the CDU (and the liberals, called FDP, which were the cause of the former coalitions breakup).
While this is mainly a coalition between the CDU (conservatives, positioned where the US has the Democrats) and SPD (social-democrats, Imagine a party of Bernie Sanders), it also includes a very nagging third partner, the CSU, basically the CDU branch from one state, but more backward oriented and always happy of stabbing their own partners or anyone else in the back if they don’t get their will. Imagine a three-year-old doing politics. This CSU is a “Our state first!” party, which lead to a traffic minister from that party signing away half a billion Euro for a project nobody cared for except the voters in their state, and which fell flat, because it was basically illegal under EU rules. The money was gone, though. The CSU is from Bavaria, which is basically our Texas&Florida, but without the beaches and the oil.
The AfD neo-Nazis (they are under constitutional protection agency observation because they have tendencies for overthrowinf the government) are comparable to the US Republicans, although less religious motivated. Many of their voters come from the former GDR who never really learned how to democracy.
That is an arm-long list!
Pension, health insurance, state of the military, infrastructure, immigrants, the right. Not necessarily in that order, but those are the top problems. There are many more on that list.
A lot of those issues are budget-related, so those problems could be solved by properly taxing the rich, or at least making sure the rich actually pay the little they legally have to contribute, but this is 100% against the grain of the CDU (and the liberals, called FDP, which were the cause of the former coalitions breakup).
While this is mainly a coalition between the CDU (conservatives, positioned where the US has the Democrats) and SPD (social-democrats, Imagine a party of Bernie Sanders), it also includes a very nagging third partner, the CSU, basically the CDU branch from one state, but more backward oriented and always happy of stabbing their own partners or anyone else in the back if they don’t get their will. Imagine a three-year-old doing politics. This CSU is a “Our state first!” party, which lead to a traffic minister from that party signing away half a billion Euro for a project nobody cared for except the voters in their state, and which fell flat, because it was basically illegal under EU rules. The money was gone, though. The CSU is from Bavaria, which is basically our Texas&Florida, but without the beaches and the oil.
The AfD neo-Nazis (they are under constitutional protection agency observation because they have tendencies for overthrowinf the government) are comparable to the US Republicans, although less religious motivated. Many of their voters come from the former GDR who never really learned how to democracy.
Thanks :) My reference is Denmark, not the US, though. But I got it still!
Well, but you probably know the US reference, so you can gauge your Danish experience against it.