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An AfD election poster - 'The AfD delivers, what the CSU only promises' (Photo: EUobserver)

Following Austria's Kurz will not save German conservatives

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the shooting star of Europe's political right, is in Berlin today and yesterday (June 12-13).

His official meeting with German counterpart Angela Merkel will cover questions of European policy – but outside the meeting rooms, his visit will serve to reignite a fundamental debate about the future of German politics.

For many German conservatives, Kurz embodies everything they want their party to become once Merkel is gone, which likely will by ...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

An AfD election poster - 'The AfD delivers, what the CSU only promises' (Photo: EUobserver)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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