News Digest Item
25 Jan 2017

“First man against descent of the SPD“

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Martin Schulz, the designated federal elections frontrunner of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), could provide new drive to his party but has little chance of winning against Chancellor Angela Merkel, writes Nico Fried in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Martin Schulz is liked within the SPD, because he appears authentic. […][He] can attack Angela Merkel more openly because he is not part of the grand government coalition. He can provide renewed self-confidence to Social Democrats if he succeeds to channel the passion that distinguished him as a European to his party,” writes Fried.

Read the opinion piece in German here.

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