Sylvia Cunningham

Journalist, radio host, documentary producer. Before: @kcrw in Berlin, @FulbrightPrgrm, @NBCNews. I can always spare some change for a clarinet busker.

[Philippa Sigl-Glöckner @PhilippaSigl]

Got to discuss w @byscunningham on @sunshinelive why it’s not the debt brake in the constitution preventing the GER govt from doing what’s required

(and yeah seems fiscal rules are a thing on electronic music radio stations these days 😎)

Podcast v: https://t.co/d3RMrOjaDT

[Alicia Baier @aliciabbaier]

In dieser Podcastfolge mit
@byscunningham tauschen sich Dr. Olatunde aus Philadelphia und ich über unsere Erfahrungen als abortion provider in D und USA aus. Viele Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch Unterschiede. Ab Min 5:40

https://t.co/6CAXTRoc7g

[Olena Lennon @olenalennon]

Sat down for another convo w the brilliant #Berlin-based @byscunningham in conjunction w @UNewHaven @887_WNHU to talk about my recent trip to Ukraine. Among many great questions raised by Sylvia, we discussed how the events of the past 5 months... /5 https://t.co/fsmxE03AA6

[Olena Lennon @olenalennon]

@UNewHaven radio https://t.co/FPys5iGZxR (click Listen Live) will be replaying Tearing Down Walls segment @7 PM ET tonight by @byscunningham, originally aired in #Berlin last Sat, w amazing mix of voices & opinions + music by #Kharkiv-born Yuriy Gurzhy & thoughts from yours truly

[Nina Haase-Trobridge 🇪🇺 @NinaHaase]

First pic of 🇩🇪‘s very likely next chancellor ⁦@OlafScholz with his⁩ ⁦@spdde⁩ ministers-four of them women. Scholz had promised a cabinet with gender parity. Altogether, it’ll be 1 male chancellor, 8 male and 8 female ministers.

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

This simple graphic, from the @faz morning newsletter, sums up the magnitude of the SPD's shift inside government. With the exception of labour, where @hubertus_heil looks set to remain in office, every ministry the SPD will take over is currently in CDU/CSU hands.

[Granta @GrantaMag]

‘Little did I know at the time, but this was the text that would turn me into the translator I never wanted to be.’

Mariam Rahmani on translating Mahsa Mohebali’s In Case of Emergency, which is out soon from @FeministPress.

https://t.co/tU7kJFvEva

[Michaela Kuefner @MKuefner]

Germany‘s new government line-up is shaping up.
Social Democrat likely-soon-Chancellor @OlafScholz announces entry into proper coalition talks with Greens + liberal FDP party.
Framework agreement reads like manual to post Merkel Germany 2.0
More digital + climate friendly - fast

[Oliver Moody @olivernmoody]

As George W Bush told reporters asking whether he had bonded with Blair after their first meeting: “Well, we both use Colgate toothpaste.”

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

Tight race in Germany’s 2021 election #btw21, according to exit poll.

🔹 Neck-and-neck between center-left SPD & conservative CDU/CSU

🔹 Greens projected in third ahead of FDP and AfD

🔹 Left Party at 5% hurdle

Big caveat – these numbers do NOT include mail-in ballots.

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

JUST IN:

Exit poll in Germany's 2021 federal election #btw21

[Sylvia Cunningham @byscunningham]

Please keep this energy going @wnglucroft

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

⏰TWO DAYS before Germans vote in #btw21.

📊Latest polling is giving us more questions than answers.

👇DW's @wnglucroft breaks it down.
https://t.co/YTJJTLlrdB

[Sylvia Cunningham @byscunningham]

Watch this great report by @giuliasaudelli breaking down the trajectory of Germany’s Greens. And find out what 👟 have to do with it…

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

How did Germany’s Greens go from being an “anti-party party” to a political player?

DW’s @giuliasaudelli takes a deep dive into the Green party's beginnings and rise. https://t.co/V7mHk2hLx4

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

There are just 51 days to go until Germans head to the polls, and the race to succeed Angela Merkel is as open as ever. 🗳️

DW’s Chief Political Editor @MKuefner brings you the latest.

Follow the @dw_politics team for an election update, every Friday. #BTW21