In Berlin, the red wave has halted the black wave. The ‘Great Centre’ is over, and Merz’s weakness has become a source of stability: no one wants to replace him. The economy, politics, the wounds of an unfinished reunification. The causes are many and intertwined. Words, stories and figures to understand the Zeitgeist of Europe’s most important (and unsettling) country.

Following Die Linke’s victory in Berlin, the German Chancellor stated that “Jewish life in Germany is no longer safe”. As if the rise of the AfD were not enough, now the far left is also making inroads on German streets where no Jew can walk safely if they are recognisable as such