The previously secret dossier assembled by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution leaked on Tuesday. It is unbelievably retarded.| www.eugyppius.com
The AfD allegedly understand Germanness to be “defined by ethnic descent,” which is “incompatible with the free democratic basic order" of the Federal Republic.| www.eugyppius.com
An exploration of the unprecedented political dumbassery afoot in the Federal Republic.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Hamburg is German’s leading industrial city.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Germany is in a lot of trouble.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
On 2 May 2025, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation. Their upgraded assessment was a rush job – a final blow AgAiNSt ThE RiGHT ordered by then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democrats during her last moments in office.| www.eugyppius.com
All human societies are led by a confined group of especially influential people.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
On the slow death of climatism in Europe.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
This is supposed to be a blog on German politics, but I haven’t posted much in this direction for some weeks.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
One of the longest-running traditions in German broadcast television is the “Word for Sunday” – a brief sermon delivered for Das Erste after the Tagesthemen news programme on Saturday evening.| www.eugyppius.com
The Banana Republic of Germany has become a very absurd and extreme place.| www.eugyppius.com
This woman is Dunja Hayali. She is known to millions of Germans as the anchor for the ZDF public news programme heute (“today”).| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
I have finally returned to blogging.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
At the end of July, U.S.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
I had plans to write about something else today, and I even have a half-finished post, but the story of the mysteriously dying AfD candidates is everywhere …| www.eugyppius.com
From BILD:| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Thomas Vierhaus is an economist from Düsseldorf with a small but active social media presence, particularly on Twitter/X. There, he now and again replies caustically to the idiocies of our media and politicians. Because our media and politicians do not like caustic commentary,| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Late Saturday night, a pair of migrants on the Dresden tram (line 7) chose to amuse themselves by harassing two women, when a 21 year-old American man stepped in to stop them.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
The sharp-eyed reporters at Apollo News caught this nugget in the flood of post-summit media coverage yesterday:| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
In Friday’s summit with U.S.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
For a whole week after 8 August, the Alaska summit between U.S.| www.eugyppius.com
This will be a more personal post.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
A brief primer on why the American empire exists, how it works, and Europe's place in it.| www.eugyppius.com
Also open thread.| www.eugyppius.com
I don’t want to be writing this, and I have two reasons for my reluctance:| www.eugyppius.com
How the Fail Chancellor sabotaged his own vote, pissed off his coalition partners & cast his government into chaos – all in a misbegotten attempt to own the AfD| www.eugyppius.com
Thoughts inspired by the unfolding USAID scandal and German political dysfunction| www.eugyppius.com
Two weeks ago, a court forced the Robert Koch Institut to release the internal protocols of their “Covid Crisis Team” meetings between January 2020 and April 2021, and the fallout continues as I type this.| www.eugyppius.com
The Robert Koch Institut is the German equivalent of the American Centres for Disease Control; they are our primary public health authority, and as such they were central to the management of the Covid pandemic in Germany.| www.eugyppius.com
As everyone knows, Donald J.| www.eugyppius.com
Apparently not stabbing and spitting on conductors is a peculiar central European cultural norm unknown to our guests from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey.| www.eugyppius.com
The time has to talk about spies and the stories we tell about spying.| www.eugyppius.com
Last week, the Robert Koch Institut (the German CDC) released over 2,500 pages documenting the meetings of the “Covid Crisis Team” between January 2020 and April 2021.| www.eugyppius.com
After Germany’s defeat in 1945, Walter Ulbricht returned from exile in Moscow to become one of the founding politicians of the DDR.| www.eugyppius.com
First came the farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, then the Freedom Convoy in Canada. Now the farm protests have reached Germany.| www.eugyppius.com
Our governing elite are increasingly selected not for intelligence or ability, but for conscientiousness, agreeability and conformity. The consequence is a new kind of midwit tyranny.| www.eugyppius.com
I don’t know much about the American pandemic pundits, but I gather that Brown University economist and “parenting guru” Emily Oster is far from the worst of them.| www.eugyppius.com
