The EPP’s weakness

Angela Merkel and Sebastian Kurz are leaving, there is no longer a majority in the Council and there is a power struggle over the post of parliamentary president: The EPP, which is used to success, is in crisis. It will have to reinvent itself.

Next Wednesday will be a rainy day for the European People’s Party. If the SPD politician Olaf Scholz is elected Germany’s next chancellor as expected, it won’t just be Angela Merkel (CDU) who loses power after sixteen years. The EPP will also lose ground – with far-reaching consequences for all of Europe.

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