But that was back in 2015... Things can change in almost 10 years. And they have, because Merkel, who started the "migration disaster" was much more in the centre, than the current leader of the CDU, Merz, who is pretty far right in the CDU and has a lot of different opinions compared to Merkel

First of all this "migration disaster" is the only thing being able to safe Germany of a total collapse of the pension system and general economical growth and secondly since Merkel left the CDU has become much more right wing and populist, so they don't really care about migrants lifes anymore.

"DIE PARTEI FÜR ARBEIT, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative", so no it's a translation error, it's just shortend

Sonneborns deutsche Arbeiterpartei kurz SDAP

@@GhostLGNDClashRoyale na hoffentlich fängt sein Vorname nicht mit N an...

I will create videos on each of the Political groups which will show the affiliations per country. But depending how these country spoecific videos do, I might do 1 for Spain too :)

That's great! Looking forward to watch them :D

Thanks is much needed everywhere

@alvaro - I assume you are Spanish right ? If so, is it possible for you to drop me a quick email at social@eumadesimple ? I have a quick question regarding Spain :)

​@@EUMadeSimple Sorry for the delay. Sure thing, coming right away!

Orban was authoritarian and hard eurosceptic (but stil begs for eu money) way before epp kicked him out. And also nobody prevents him from joining ECR or ID.

@@georgek8950 Yes, Orban is a hypocrite. My point was that the EPP coddled and enabled him when it suited their purposes. I am not sure the point you are trying to make, but I stand by my point which is that the EPP and Ursula are failures that need to be replaced.

Ill see what I can do :)

Happy the video helped ! Good luck with the assignment. And if you have any questions, then let us know in the comments :)

Vielen dank :)

It's sad but you need to remember that not voting or voting for the right is still a worse option every time. Without the FDP in the government coalition, the German government would have been able to do much stronger pro-worker and environmentalist politics, but that would have required the SPD or Greens to have an even larger victory in the last national election. So remember to vote, that is the only way to regain momentum for European leftists.

But you still vote for spd while DL does exist

You dont have any nuclear plant you live with coal mining you pollute the air, as a french. We dee germany want to destroy france, destroy our agriculture our sovereignty our army our economy. so i a bit disgusted by german people who VOTED FOR THAT. Exaclty like You VOTED for the H

deswegen Die PARTEI :)

​@@user-gq8rw6hf9v Why would anyone vote for those communists? No one wants a return of the GDR.

Thank you :) Happy you enjoy the content !

Here are some insights from which Danish political parties are pro-EU and which are pro-EU and which are sceptic! The current ruling government is composed of a coalition government of three parties call the SVM-government - the Social Democrats, the Left (Venstre) and the Moderates. However these parties are losing popularity and there is a rising populist party called the Denmark Democrats that might try to influence EU-policies. Hope you enjoy the read here! - Enhedslisten: Traditionally a left-wing, EU-sceptic party, but today is more pro-EU and engage in EU-elections - belongs to European United Left (GUE) / Nordic Green Left (NGL) - Socialist People's Party (SF): Moderate left and pro-EU, belonging to the Greens-EFA - Social Democrats (SD): Moderate left and pro-EU, belonging to the S&D - Social democrats - The Moderats: Centre right and pro-EU, beloning to Renew Europe - Venstre (The Left): A classical liberal centre right party, pro-EU and also part of Renew Europe group - The Denmark Democrats (DD): A right wing populist, liberal party, that are EU-sceptics yet are eager to join the EU-Parliament to influence policies from within, and are likely to team up with Identity and Democracy - Liberal Alliance (LA): A classical liberal right wing party, more economically liberal than The Left, and are pro-EU yet are sceptics regarding the democratic deficiencies in the EU From my understanding, current polls indicate that the parties like Liberal Alliance, the Denmark Democrats and the Socialist People's Party are going to gain far more votes in the next election, and I am super interested to see how this will influence the EU! It is a super interesting development in our politics at home, since these are mostly newly formed parties Denmark is also a pretty important member-state in the EU, we've sent a ton of support to Ukraine, we are increasing our military budget to over 2% BNP, and the current Executive Vice President of the European Commission is from Denmark! Kind regards from a Danish viewer!

Remember that Gymnasium means something different in English tho ;)

Haha, vidste bare det var en dansker, som havde skrevet denne kommentar

What does "at the highest level" mean lol

Don't know if you noticed but Merkel is retired and with Merz they have a leader from the right wing of the Party. With Merkel's retirement the more progressive Part of the CDU lost it's power.

It will come :) but we need some weeks to research it properly

Why? It won't happen, it will set too many precedents for one.

Romanian Reunification

Probably about the occupation of Moldova by Romania, because Moldova as a country existed many centuries before Romania was established. I don't know any Moldovan who would like to be part of Romania, but I know many Romanians who would like Moldova to be part of their country, which is not a sufficient argument for the merger of the two countries, especially since Romania is currently cooperating very strongly with Germany, as it was during World War II, and German, Austrian, Russian or Turkish arbitrations in this part of Europe are associated only with an attempt to play off the countries of the Western and Eastern Balkans and were always carried out under pressure, during conflicts or wars that these countries caused, so Germany and Romania will get away from the national issue of the Moldavian state ! Using a card such as Moldova's accession to the European Union as a result of the annexation of this country by Romania is an abuse by Germany and Romania of the entire idea of the European Union project for some nefarious purposes.

@@Michael189redwhite One of the many precedents it would create. Not to mention how likes of Orban would abuse those.

No please not

Volt lost a seat in the 2023 Dutch general election, receiving 1.71% of the vote. I wouldn't call that a success.

Volt is essentially the opposite of the AfD. While the AfD is voted for by people that want to strenghten national sovereignty Volt believes that Europe should essentially become a united states of Europe. They are somewhat of a pro-EU protest party that opposes both the current middle system and other parties caving to the right to get support. Socially they are progressive and economically moderate to liberal (pro-market). DiEM25 is a similar group that is much more left-leaning on economics and socialist (they were the closest party to failing to gain a seat in the last German election).

Seem like Volt don't know what they stand for either. I've seen their posters, and it's just "don't be a dick", "for good change"...

It is a very tough question on which I could create an entire video (which maybe I should). In short, the parties generally agree on big topics before they go into coalitions together. For example, The Greens from all over Europe will likely agree on 90% of strict green policies. While Renew Europe is very pro-business and anti-red tape, so they are likely to agree to 90% of policies that improve this. Also, before the elections they generally agree (and comprimise) on what their priorities are. Of course, more compromise might be made by countries with fewer MEP's that with more. Lastly, groups are no where near as united as national parties in countries. If you look at the voting records, it is very common for their to be 50-50 splits within European Political Groups. Take the EU reform proposal, where the EPP groups almost had a 33%-33%-33% split in support (for-neutral-against). This by no means a full answer - and I have put it on my lsit of potential videos as it is an interesting topic.

I took the 6 biggest. Linke and FDP were tied. So I looked at a previous poll where FDP was bigger. And FDP is part of the ruling coalition. That was the logic I used. But sorry to hear if you are disappointed that they didnt feature.

​@MOHRWUNMIFLHYDOCThey describe themselves as economically left and socially right.

​@@Minuku42 left wing natioalism

based

Because no one gives a shit about Portugal.

Because freedom at last 🇵🇹

its african country at this point

@@Jk-tp2ll How? The UK has more Black people.

CDU under Merkel was different, with Merz the right wing of the Party is in power now. Have you listened to the guy, he could be a AFD politician with his stance on migration. The hate is obvious.

@@herrscotti007 The CDU has no credibility when they want to make a coalition with the SPD or Greens which openly support the violent and extreme Antifa. I see more hate from the far-left in Germany. Conservatism and patriotism have nothing to do with hate.

Yes most likely will in a month or so

To be honest, it was very hard to label her party. She was left-wing in certain areas, centrist in others and right-wing in other areas... In future videos I will go deeper into detail and make that clearer

i consider them a swinger party @@EUMadeSimple

@@littlerage4u799 Thats sounds a bit ...

They are economicly left, argubly more then die Linke, but Socially far more right leaning. Much closer to orthodox maxist dieology then the neo-marxist ideas of the modern leftwing parties we see so often today

@@EUMadeSimple thats the entire point of the party she came from the left and split up from them , her aim is to have a syncrtism party which has right and left points in his pogramm

Not missing, just very small 3:34

Kinda bad thank god

The EU party saw a slight increase in polling from 2019, the german party die linke suffered a split which is how BSW came to be. Overall there is a slight gain in vote share for the left.

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@@grovert4life The German Greens are against science

Same, but thankfully it seems like more and more Germans are changing their attitudes towards nuclear power

@@diegoyuiop Right! Hopefully, a day will come when antinuclearism is perceived as flat-Earthism is perceived today.

Well said, time to finally distinguish real care for climate with whatever this hippie pro-russian and borderline neo-marxist "Green Party" is.

As far as I know they are not a national party teaming up with other national parties but a European party by design.

Also did not talk about the german left which has the same votes as the fdp. Kinda sus, do I see a prefernce on this channel?

Weil die Linkspartei an der Grenze zur Irrelevanz steht. Die Gurken irgendwo bei 3% rum

My friend how can you judge Sahra Wagenknecht`s political positions if you are not even capable of writing neither her first name nor her last name correctly? Sahra Wagenknecht´s political positions are left wing in economic politics and social politics but rather liberal-conservative and anti - woke in the cultural field.

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Die Linke is basicly a dead party at this point. Losing its main voter base, boomers in east Germany to BSW. Even tough they are still the 7th alrgest party in Germany, and will defentivily reach the 0,5% needed for the European ellection, they will not longer play any real major role in German domestic politics.There will never be naything like a Ramelow in Thuringia ever again.

I thought the same. Thanks for your comment!

I took the 6 biggest. Linke and FDP were tied. So, I looked at a previous poll where FDP was bigger. And FDP is part of the ruling coalition. That was the logic I used. But sorry to hear if you are disappointed that they didnt feature.

Weil die Linkspartei an der Grenze zur Irrelevanz steht. Die Gurken irgendwo bei 3% rum. Welcher Komiker interessiert sich denn für putingeile altkommunisten🤮

the left is utterly irrelevant. BSW will be a player at least in east germany

@danielhalachev4714 oh yes I hope this stops … to be honest I only trust products made in EU especially when it comes to food. In EU at least we have the guarantee that it is not overly pescitised and it is not cancerous … to be honest I have begun growing my own food just because of this and I do not buy food from out side of EU … or other products unless I must

It's either a step back to untangle the economies and shrink the common market, or just a political stunt to have national currencies in name only

Then maybe the SPD might be a good choice for you? Most of the time when a proposal is approved in the parliament it's because it's a compromise between the the "three center parties" S&D (which the SPD is in) as well as Renew and EPP. I think this center block is a really good thing because it usually means that only reasonable decisions make it through that take multiple different views into account. Very one-sided or outlandish proposals usually don't get approved. I know that center leaning parties like the SPD are often perceived as "too compromising" but the ability to compromise is exactly what we need. Of course the ultimate decision is up to you. I just wanted to share the thoughts I had when I was reading your comment.

​​@@1LPMx1SPD is even more supportive of ethnic cleansing in Gaza than Greens are, Olaf Scholz should be brought to the Hague court indeed. Also, their environmental policies are weak, quite conservative. Die Linke and ÖDP are the only ones with good, progressive and concrete environmental policies.

For the love of god, whatever you do, do not vote for the SPD. We've got a saying over here; "Wer hat uns Verraten? Sozialdemokraten!" "Who betrayed us? socialdemocrats!" Vote anything but AfD, CDU or SPD.

Nuclear shutdown in Germany was decided way before Grüne came to power and can't be undone realistically by any party. Also they just shut down multiple coal plants, so I don't see the increase reliance on coal power. With Linke we have to wait for there EU Program and so on to see what they want, because they just split and the pro-Putin and anti-Migrant people left to make their own Party, the BSW.

You sound like CDU

This channel is leftist and represents all that’s rotting and killing Europe

they dont say anything cuz they are waiting for their passports, then they will speak up for their interestes without being deported

Sahra Wagenknecht is right on all social policies? Support of same sex marriage (which CDU was against of) is right wing? Support of legalization of weed is right wing? Support of legal abortion is right wing? Support of the idea that "people of different cultural backgrounds can coexist" is right wing? No weapon export and no military intervention is right wing? 😂 I am amused how Germans tend to define someone right wing because that political subject is calling for sricter immigration policies and doesn't want to support Ukraine militarily. The same Germans think that SPD and Greens are left wing because exporting weapon to Israel and Saudi Arabia during ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Yemen is such a left wing policy, supporting the racist right wing Israeli government is such s left wing policy, being supportive of car industry is such an environmentalist left wing policy, cutting budget for research and giving more to military is such a left wing policy, and privatisation of healthcare and public transport is such a left wing policy.😂

@@withoutshadowww "Support of same sex marriage (which CDU was against of) is right wing?" Incorrect. A significant portion of the CDU/CSU voted for gay marriage. "Support of legalization of weed is right wing?" Drug legalization isn't really right or left-wing. Right-libertarians are also pro-weed. "Support of legal abortion is right wing?" Unable to find any source. Current legal abortion laws are also known to be strict in Germany. "Support of the idea that "people of different cultural backgrounds can coexist" is right wing?" I have no context for this. "No army export and no military intervention is right wing?" Neo-nazi party III. Way is also pro palestine and anti weapons export. Also there is no ARMY EXPORT OR MILITARY INTERVENTION. It doesnt make you left or right-leaning.

​@@DGAMINGEN Oh, please, it's well known that even Angela Merkel didn't vote for same sex marriage but abstained. MOST of CDU supporters either abstained or voted against. Not to mention that previously (when CDU was in coalition with FDP) they absolutely voted against. CSU just 2-3 years ago introduced lgbt in their programme, because they didn't want to be the only parliamentarian homophobes together with AFD. So, don't lie here, please. CDU is a strong supporter of imperialism (although all parliamentarian German parties except Die Linke nowadays kinda are) - CDU even supported the criminal US invasion of Iraq (luckily they were not in power back but SPD and Greens who were against). CDU loves exporting weapons to conflictual zones more then the others (not the only one I repeat), they are against dual citizenship, they support privatisations, they support car industry and highways over public transport, they don't care so much about climate change and global ecological justice, they support surveillance of citizens, etc. Of course they are on the right side of the spectrum in the Western and Northern European context. They used to be much more right wing, xenophobic, conservative, nationalistic, homophobic, authoritarian some decades ago, though. Tell me what Sahra's right wing policies are, apart from being for restrictive immigration measures (although I could remind you that Socialist Party of Netherlands has the same position)? Maybe because she calls Gaza an open prison... for German citizens that's a right wing position? 🤣 I guess that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and all green and socialist parties outside the post-Nazi space (Germany and Austria) are also very right wing in that case. 😅 Btw, neo-Nazi party doesn't want to export weapon because they are isolationists, not because they care of human rights and threat of genocide, and has a pacifist agenda. The same with AFD -- they are a strong supporter of Israeli government because they have similar right wing policies, and they have no problem with more dead Muslims (they might love it), while the Green party has a different reason for supporting the weapon export even though the immoral and criminal ones of course (common for German post-Nazi confused subjects). After all, they have been brought to the Hague court these days. 😅 Also when it comes to export of weapon -- all democratic socialist and left green parties are against it across Europe (just look at Scandinavia), while all parliamentarian right wing and conservative parties are in support of it (you can also look at the same countries). Therefore, that policy of Sahra W. is a typical left wing policy, as many others policies of her. Go educate yourself, left is not just about identity politics, and restrictive immigration is not enough to be right wing (liberals often support more immigration because they want cheap exploitative labour, and liberals are center to right, not left by any mean). You have no context in regards to "coexistence of people of different cultural backgrounds"? Well, work on it. You can easily find online even some CDU/CSU politicians saying that Muslims/Islam doesn't belong to Germany or something similar, but you won't find that kind of discourse from Sahra W -- because simply she is not a right wing conservative and her worries in regards to immigration belong to a different context. Open up for the views, perspective and experiences from the outside. Don't be an autistic victim of the parochial pseudo-intellectual German simplifications.

Most of Sahra Wagenknecht's voters come from the AfD so yeah, she's everything except left wing

Do it vote afd 😂

@@phiizzurp1200 nah man CDU/EPP all the way I want a federal europe

Yes, with Merz they certainly shifted away from the centre...

@@Minuku42 Yes. Now they are left like all the other old parties. He even wants a coalition with the greens...

@@nick66914 What are you talking about? Do you keep up with what the CDU and CSU are demanding and doing? They are firmly right-wing. Stop biting into Russian propaganda.

​@@Minuku42 That has nothing to do with Russian propaganda. It seems that you're just stupid. The CDU since Merkel has been left-wing conservative, which is why the vacuum opened up for the AfD. Merz is trying to move more towards the center, but the split with the Werte ​​Union means they are losing another conservative wing. If the CDU is more left-wing than the Social Democrats in Denmark on the crucial issue, then they are not right-wing!

​​@@nick66914 Left?! 😂 Sure, more economic competition, more weapon export, less subsidies for public transport, no legal weed, no gay marriage... Very left wing😂

As a Romanian, not sure. The old people used to vote SDP (or PSD as we call them). Now, after their governance along with NLP (National Liberal Party - PNL) I expect both of these to lose votes and **need** to get used to one another.

@@Hardcore_Remixer Ce voiam să spun e că există un partid social democrat în România, chiar dacă nu la nivelul celui din Germania. 😅 Ei spuseseră că nu există un partid ca SDP în România, ceea ce nu e adevărat, măcar în teorie.

​@tio301 ce a vrut sa spuna este ca SDP si PSD sunt entitati diferite, cu conduceri diferite care sunt afiliate doar la nivel european prin S&D, precum exemplu cu Les Republucans si CDU, majoritatea europartidelor, printre care se numara si PES si EPP au o structura bottom. Exista partide care au structuri mai top down, in care cei de la conducerea europartidului au putere mai multa asupra partidelor nationale, similar cu la noi partidul national are putere asupra celor locale. Cel mai mare europartid structurat asa as spune ca este EGP (European Green Party), dar un exemplu foarte bun de partid cu asemenea structura, care a fost gandit asa de la inceput spre deosebire de Verzi, este Volt Europa, filiala germana a fost menționată in video cand vorbea despre partide mai mici.

Fair point. Will take it with me.

However, the word “fair” can also mean something like “moderate or balanced” as the mid-point between “strict” and “loose or tolerant”, which hasn’t been used here. Myself, i would categorise the SPD as “fair” and the Greens as more tolerant in case of migration.

100%

They are just pro social safety nets. Socialist parties in eu are social democrats. They simp for capital and join in on imperialism.

But advocate for a more humane capitalism

90% of parties in eu are soc dems

Most of them don't really advocate for communism and rather a stronger safety-net for the people. So good health care, financial safety for people in need, taxing the rich more. This kinda stuff

left wing usually in a social democratic way, purposefully detached from the authoritarian model from the soviets. the youtuber 'kraut' made a great video about the origins and what the "ideal" values of social democracy look like (video: "How Denmark invented Social Democracy"). Nowadays the left wing is defined mostly through pushing for social equality, climate policies and improved welfare. Germany has some tiny, tiny far-left parties that genuinely advocate for communism but they have VERY little support. Nationalist/populist far right has been gaining more popularity, however. hope that clears some things up! have a great day!

Well it is a traditional left wing party in the sense that left wing parties used to never were pro immigration. They are basically classical left wing without the modern “wokeness”

Man is a conservative left party. That’s how democracy works. There is a lot of people on the left who want to have better opportunities for workers. And against capitalism. SPD is pro war, pro less payment (worsen per capita), and pro coal. It got bourgeois and capitalist.

They're clearly just Kremlin funded Putin bootlickers. Both the far left and the far right love Putin. So no surprise here.

The party of Sarah is the best one because is not a slave of USA. EU was created to transfom Europe in a big american colony

Sahra Wagenknecht is right wing especially because of her foreign policies? According to you -- exporting weapon to the racist right wing Israeli government and the authoritarian Saudi Arabia (particularly during ethnic cleansings) is a left wing policy, and being in general against weapon export and against military intervention is a right wing policy? 😅 Omg, education in Germany apparently sucks, but brainwashing is fabulous indeed. Sahra W. supported gay marriage, legalization of weed, she doesn't question abortion... supporting more restrictive immigration policies doesn't mean you are automatically right wing. In that case, SPD and Greens are suuuuper right wing considering their pro-war and pro-ethnic cleansing policies, and terrible restrictions of freedom of speech.

AFD is PRO Europe 💪

The United Kingdom is still on the European continent. A good example of anti-EU but not anti-Europe…

I can see them as centre-left, but in the last few years it really felt like they were moving more towards the centre and less left...

@@Minuku42 the hell? Theyre far left my guy

@@siempresonrie5924 lmao you don't believe that yourself, do you?

​​@@Minuku42 The greens are far left extremists. Eco-fascists is fitting. Greens rot very fast and become brown shit

@@Minuku42 ‘Selbstbestimmungsgesetz’

Who wants a video about a irrelevant group

I think that the CDU/CSU (also just called "Union") is on a national level more right leaning than on the EU level. Especially since Friedrich Merz is the leader of the party, the "Union" has shifted more and more too the right.

Renew Europe is maybe too liberal and EPP is a christan democratic liberal-conversative right fraction

@@bene_nagisa6185 oh so that is the reason why I kinda like him

@@bene_nagisa6185thank god they did. We didn’t have a proper Conservative Party for a long time. Only a pseudo conservative CDU and the next thing on the right were the Nzis. The right shift of the CDU was crucial 🖤

​@@bene_nagisa6185it has shifted back to where it was before Merkel tried to fish for liberal voters, and thats a good thing

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100% AfD

AfD für immer

National in the sense that it's a party on the national level, not on the european lvl

@@doncarlos4099 that might make more sense. Thanks for telling me

Ne

Most of European parties are just shades of social-democracy.

Because she is not a natzee? These days, if ya are not a natzee, you can't be a right winger, it seems.

@@jeckjeck3119 she's the biggest nazi in the eu and she's clearly a leftist

​@@jeckjeck3119she is strong left wing.

@@johnwatson122 She is all over the place on issues, a centrist.