With Germany, former linchpin of the European Union, slipping increasingly into economic trouble, German elites are struggling mightily to hold onto their wealth by any means possible. In the process they are recruiting the SPD, once a Marxist party, to participate in a coalition government The prominence of right-wing topics in their discussions include foreign and military power, austerity and welfare cuts, police and surveillance.
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