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It’s my party
On the wall near my home in Berlin, someone has sprayed a thoughtful observation: Machen ist wie wollen, nur krasser – Doing is like wanting, just crazier. That could be the new political motto of Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s most polarising politician of the left. Wagenknecht entered politics in 1990 and now, at fifty-five, is German democracy’s longest-serving matron of honour.
For more than three decades, long before telemedicine was a thing, Dr Wagenknecht has diagnosed modern Germany’s ills from the safe distance of the Bundestag opposition bench and talk show studios. But now it seems that she wants more: actively pushing for political responsibility to enact change.
At least it sounded that way last October when she and nine allies departed the post-communist Die Linke (The Left) party to form the provisionally titled eponymous political ‘alliance’, the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW). From a standing start – just 800 members, no back office and minimal funding – the BSW scored impressive double-digit support in two eastern state elections on September 1st. In Germany’s smallest state of Thuringia, where Wagenknecht spent her first years, the BSW took 15.8 per cent or fifteen seats in the state parliament in Erfurt; in neighbouring Saxony, 11.8 per
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Continent of opportunities
Berlin’s downtown streets are blocked off as the column of black diplomatic limousines moves from the Chancellery through the Tiergarten on 12 June 2017. The German government has invited more than 10 African heads of state; Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, has come from Washington. German Chancellor Merkel, Federal Development Minister Müller, Economic Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD), Finance Minister Schäuble and many ambassadors arrive at the Gasometer in the Schöneberg district. The German hosts have chosen the former site of Berlin’s main natural gas provider GASAG, because it stands for economic development and energy production. GASAG was the 19th century’s largest gas provider in Western Europe, when gas lanterns lit the fast-growing cities. Today, the listed landmark with its towering gas tank is an event venue.
Germany’s government has convened the G20 Africa Partnership Conference here just weeks before the actual G20 Summit in Hamburg in July 2017. As Germany holds the G20 presidency for 2017, it has declared this the Year of Africa. ‘Investing in a common future’ is the motto for the Berlin conference. In her opening speech, Merkel warns: ‘We know that pan-global development can only succeed if all contin