The collapse of Germany’s government will delight Trump – and his European friends | Paul Taylor

The breakdown of the feuding Berlin alliance will leave a political vacuum in Germany for months , just when the EU needs decisive leadership.

Germany is succumbing to the “ Dutch disease” the collapse of big-tent mainstream parties and the fragmentation of the political spectrum that is debilitating many European democracies.

The collapse of the traffic light’ coalition is a disillusionment for those who believed that a progressive alliance was possible.

The external hammer blows of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine and falling Chinese demand for German imports helped dash the German dream.

But German fiscal fetishism also played a central role in dooming Scholz 's government to failure.