Episode 4 - A New Era for Germany

In this podcast journalist Gavin O'Toole looks at Germany, which has long been the engine driving the European economy but in recent years has begun to stall.

The country’s newly elected Bundestag, or parliament, convenes for the first time on 25th March 2025 confronting greater challenges than ever before.

A stagnant economy in need of dramatic structural reform, a rising political threat from the populist far right, and a new geopolitical order that demands Germans think the unthinkable about rearming have created unprecedented trials for the incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

What does the new order mean for Germany, how should it adapt, and what are the implications for the rest of us?

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