Which winter lies ahead for Germany? A dark winter, and that is not a metaphor. The governing parties and the media across the Alps are informing the population about the energy rationing coming this fall.
The 13th Alternative für Deutschland congress held in Riesa, Saxony, ended a few hours early. The cause of the unexpected event was the Ukrainian conflict, which ended up representing yet another opportunity for confrontation between the two components of the German sovereignist party.
The green extremist movement founded in Berlin less than a year ago has established itself in Milan and Rome and is expanding to other cities in the Center-North. Exactly as in Berlin, where authorities when they do not minimize openly support, in Italy we see everything but condemnation.
German environmental movements have moved easily from words to deeds, initiating a series of mobilizations, bordering on violence, that are little talked about in the rest of Europe.
Given for granted that there is no concept of happiness that fits all individuals, however, serious reflection would be needed from conservative philosophy on what are at least the essential traits of a happy and satisfying life.
We know the budget but what will be the German military's shopping list? Nothing is certain yet, but something has already leaked out. The German armed forces seem to be in need of a real re-foundation
Certainly freedom of speech is a fundamental issue, but is this issue enough to make the American-Canadian-South African billionaire, the richest man on earth, a totem of the conservative political area?
Never, in Europe, had philosophy been judged useless. Bended, amputated, censored, often even vilified and accused of intellectualism, philosophy has continued to be taught even in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In today's Europe, on the contrary, they want to erase it. Why?
Scholz's announcement to allocate 2% of German GDP to Defense represents a political earthquake in Germany. Forced now to question many certainties that had themselves become constitutive of Germany's post-Cold War political identity.
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