{"id":131207,"date":"2025-01-31T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/31\/a-coalition-with-the-far-right-in-germany-is-unthinkable-epp-leader-manfred-weber-3\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:16:58","slug":"a-coalition-with-the-far-right-in-germany-is-unthinkable-epp-leader-manfred-weber-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/31\/a-coalition-with-the-far-right-in-germany-is-unthinkable-epp-leader-manfred-weber-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;A coalition with the far right in Germany is unthinkable&rsquo;: EPP leader Manfred Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe&rsquo;s most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls in a parliamentary vote, following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s coalition in November. The conservative CDU-CSU is the favourite, but no party looks likely to win a majority, and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling strongly. We sit down with an important player in the CSU:\u00a0Manfred Weber, who is the president of the conservative European People\u2019s Party (EPP) in the EU Parliament. We talk about the far right in Germany and Europe, Elon Musk\u2019s support for the AfD, the EU\u2019s relations with US President Donald Trump, and why the EPP is putting more focus on competitiveness and the European car industry.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe&rsquo;s most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls in a parliamentary vote, following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s coalition in November. The conservative CDU-CSU is the favourite, but no party looks likely to win a majority, and the far-right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-131207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}