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On Tuesday, German railways experienced their sixth strike in four months;
the day before, at the Council of European Ministers, the government of Olaf Scholz, unable to find an agreement in its coalition, had to abstain from voting on the draft directive regulating the working conditions of “Uberized” employees.
At first glance these two episodes in national political life do not have much in common.
They nevertheless demonstrate a weakening of what constitutes the historical marker of German democracy: its capacity to forge compromise.
Unions and employers, conservatives, liberals or social democrats, united despite their fundamental differences, have succeeded, since the end of the war, in governing a country shaken by the catastrophe of Nazism, and in guiding it towards prosperity.
The history of the Holy Roman Empire, scattered between confetti kingdoms, elector princes and church leaders, itself instilled in Germany…
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