Chris Reiter 📯

Co-author of Broken Republik / Totally Kaputt? Senior editor across economics, politics and business for Bloomberg. Wahlberliner from the US. Opinions my own.

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

Germany can turn itself around if it really understands its issues. We lay it out in our new book "Totally Kaputt?" (out now in German):
https://t.co/qSMxlITOwf

Here's the first review 👇
https://t.co/JuWJOLpAHp

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

@ManagerTactical Can we please be a little more gracious during this tournament. There's already enough ugliness toward other nations by US officials. Can we as fans take the higher ground and show more respect.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

German FM Wadephul admits that support for Israel “due to historical responsibility” cost them votes at the UN

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

Not a good chart for Germany, which needs net migration to maintain its workforce.

Even if this is retirees heading south (instead of active workers moving), it means all that state pension money is going to support other economies.

[Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner]

Good Morning from Germany, where more and more German citizens are leaving the country.
Last year, 288,579 Germans moved abroad, up from 270,000 the year before – a fresh record. The number of Germans moving back to Germany rose slightly, from 189,000 to 192,000. But the net balance still worsened to almost -97,000. That is the 2nd-highest net outflow of German citizens in the country’s history. Only 2016 was worse, at -135,000.

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

@usmntonly Good. He had little skin in the game and wasn't committed to building the program. His main service was ending the Berhalter era.

Hopefully, we have a decent run, but then it is time for Poch to go.

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

Get ready for it.

If Germany’s far-right party AfD wins control in Saxony-Anhalt in September, it plans a purge of civil servants that don't align with its nationalist agenda.

Likely a sign of things to come.

https://t.co/2ki3x4dkEh

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

Germany's far-right AfD pulls into a 6 point lead ahead of Friedrich Merz's conservatives.

Only about one in three voters support the governing parties. The CDU/CSU-SPD coalition was described as "grand" in the good old days of a few years ago.

[ntv Nachrichten @ntvde]

RTL/ntv-Trendbarometer: Union hängt fest - AfD setzt sich weiter ab https://t.co/qteZQ6XXGu

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

After a week of being booed and heckled and struggling to connect with voters and implement forward-looking reforms, Chancellor Merz's conservatives are now trailing the far-right AfD by 7 points.

[Deutschland Wählt @Wahlen_DE]

BUNDESTAGSWAHL | Sonntagsfrage INSA/BILD am Sonntag

AfD: 29% (+1)
Union: 22% (-1)
GRÜNE: 14% (+1)
SPD: 12% (-1)
LINKE: 10% (-1)
BSW: 3%
FDP: 3%
Sonstige: 7% (+1)

Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 09. Mai 2026

Verlauf: https://t.co/f9MV7iZ8iJ
#btw29

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz can't even go to a church social without getting heckled. The mood is really rough.

[ARD-Hauptstadtstudio @ARD_BaB]

Der Auftritt von Kanzler Merz (CDU) beim Katholikentag ist von Zwischenrufern gestört worden. Lautstark machten die Demonstranten ihren Unmut über die Politik der Bundesregierung deutlich und hielten Protestplakate hoch.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

The AfD are just two points away from being first place IN BERLIN!

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

@ck_gen It does look that way. Hard to see a trend change at this point.

Feels like this fall Merz will be forced aside after state election defeats, and Spahn (or Soeder) takes over as chancellor in a fragile minority government.

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

In this poll for the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which votes for a new regional government on Sept. 6, the far-right AfD is almost on par with the three parties above the 5% threshold.

AfD = 42%
CDU+SPD+Left = 43%

The "firewall" against the far-right can't survive that.

[Deutschland Wählt @Wahlen_DE]

SACHSEN-ANHALT | Sonntagsfrage Landtagswahl INSA/NIUS

AfD: 42% (+4)
CDU: 24% (-1)
LINKE: 13%
SPD: 6%
GRÜNE: 4%
BSW: 4% (-1)
FDP: 3%
Sonstige: 4% (-2)

Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 25. März 2026

Verlauf: https://t.co/x9wTDqkYqA
#ltwst #ltwlsa

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

@tombogert Gio had one decent sub appearance and scored a garbage time goal. The proper answer is "I need to keep working hard and take every chance I get "

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

German football is becoming a pioneer in gender diversity. You love to see it.

[DW Sports @dw_sports]

🚨 Another historic move in German football 🇩🇪

Kathleen Krüger, former Bayern women's midfielder, becomes Hamburg's Sporting Director.

The role is traditionally in charge of all men's football activities including hiring or firing coaches and transfers.

👏

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

Germany's far-right AfD has opened up a six-point lead over Friedrich Merz's conservatives in the latest YouGov poll. The widest so far among major voter surveys.

[Deutschland Wählt @Wahlen_DE]

BUNDESTAGSWAHL | Sonntagsfrage YouGov

AfD: 28% (+1)
Union: 22% (-1)
SPD: 13%
GRÜNE: 13% (-1)
LINKE: 11% (+1)
BSW: 4%
FDP: 4%
Sonstige: 5%

Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 15. April 2026

Verlauf: https://t.co/f9MV7iZ8iJ
#btw29

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

German Chancellor Merz drew shouts and jeers at a labor union conference as he made a pitch for reforms, again calling for sacrifices (despite rejecting taxes on the wealthy).

“Everybody has to give something,” he said, triggering a chorus of boos.
https://t.co/Z4atuc16YX

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

This sort of community building may be one of the few good things about this @FIFAWorldCup and it's notably not organized by FIFA.

[Vincent Barone @vinbarone]

Mayor Mamdani leads the attack at a Soccer Streets game outside PS 32 in the Bronx. NYC DOT is opening streets to school children outside of their schools with soccer pitches, banner-making stations, and more leading up to the World Cup.

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Germany's far-right AfD, is the country’s second-most popular politician.

But to be fair, only Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is viewed positively.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has the most negative rating.

[Deutschland Wählt @Wahlen_DE]

Zufriedenheit mit Politikern — Umfrage Infratest dimap/ARD

Zufrieden | Unzufrieden

Pistorius (SPD): 56% (+7) | 32% (-4)
Weidel (AfD)¹: 26% (+1) | 64% (-1)
Dobrindt (CSU)¹: 25% (-3) | 51% (-1)
Klingbeil (SPD): 21% (+3) | 64% (-3)
Bas (SPD): 18% (+3) | 54% (-3)
Merz (CDU): 16% (-5) | 83% (+7)
Brantner (GRÜNE)¹: 12% | 29% (+1)
Reiche (CDU): 12% | 59% (+3)
Spahn (CDU)²: 12% (-4) | 78% (+1)
Schwerdtner (LINKE): 7% (NEU) | 21% (NEU)

Änderungen zu April 2026
¹Änderungen zu März 2026
²Änderungen zu Dezember 2025

Verlauf: https://t.co/XRY9Lhb71a
#btw29

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

@derJamesJackson That's getting close to the level needed for an absolute majority in the state (if other parties fall short of the 5% hurdle).

Feels other worth noting this here...
https://t.co/GBKQ8qh0MT

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

@Ludovic_Subran It took Milan a long time to realize the error of their ways. In 2023, the mayor told us...

“Sometimes these billionaires do not live the idea of communities. They are happy here. But we would like to have a sort of give-back from them.”

https://t.co/IzZwapcTlx

[Chris Reiter 📯 @chrishreiter]

87% of Germans are unhappy with the governing coalition of Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats, according to a Forsa poll.

It's hard to get that many Germans to agree on anything. So I guess that is a form of national solidarity. Immerhin...🙆‍♂️

[Deutschland Wählt @Wahlen_DE]

Sind Sie mit der bisherigen Arbeit der Bundesregierung zufrieden? | Umfrage Forsa/RTL, n-tv

Ja: 11% (-27)
Nein: 87% (+29)
Weiß nicht: 2% (-2)

Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 08. Juli 2025
#btw29