Waiting for Germany, Waiting for the Greens?
6 min readFeb 18, 2020
Germany ain’t what it used to be. Long regarded as a beacon of stability, its political landscape is in turmoil. Erfurt has blown the cracks in Germany’s political system wide open. It’s in this small city that a liberal Free Democrat (FDP) was elected state premier of Thuringia with the joint votes of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The CDU and FDP voting…