Michael O’Shea is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute. He is an alumnus of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.
Representatives of Germany’s two most powerful establishment parties are comfortable publicly expressing the view that a popular rival should be suppressed.
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