Almost 60% of people in Germany think the conservative-led coalition will not last till 2029 elections The head of the ifo Institute says Germany could face recession if a trade war with the US erupts<\/p>\n
Here is a roundup of top political, cultural and human interest stories from and about Germany on Sunday, May 3, 2026:<\/p>\n
AfD beats out Merz’s conservative bloc \u2014 INSA survey<\/p>\n
Another INSA survey published on Sunday has shown that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU\/CSU bloc in popularity ratings.<\/p>\n
Support for the AfD was 28%, while the conservative bloc sits at 24%.<\/p>\n
The junior coalition partner in the federal government, the center-left SPD, remained at 14%, the same level as in the previous week’s poll, while the opposition Greens rose one point to 13%.<\/p>\n
The socialist Left Party was at 11%.<\/p>\n
The growing popularity of the AfD in Germany comes despite the fact that several of its local chapters have been classified as right-wing extremist by local intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n
A classification BfV domestic intelligence agency is of the entire AfD as such by Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency, issued last year, is currently suspended following an appeal by the party.<\/p>\n
The BfV has pointed to allegedly racist and anti-constitutional elements in the party’s platform to justify its concerns.<\/p>\n
Majority has little faith in coalition’s staying power \u2014 survey<\/p>\n
Germany’s conservative-led coalition government between the mainstream center-right and center-left parties has received poor marks in a survey published on Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to the survey by the INSA Institute, conducted for the Sunday tabloid Bild am Sonntag, 58% of people in Germany feel that the conservative-led government will fall apart before elections scheduled for 2029.<\/p>\n
Just under a quarter (24%) believed it would last the course, while another 18% either did not know or did not answer.<\/p>\n
The coalition also received bad points for its governance record up to now, with three-quarters of respondents saying they were dissatisfied with its performance as against 16% who felt the government was doing a good job.<\/p>\n
The coalition comprises the conservative bloc of Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), together with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).<\/p>\n
It took office just under a year ago, with CDU Chancellor Friedrich Merz sworn in on May 6.<\/p>\n
Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n
The DW newsroom in Bonn says a warm guten Tag to its readers across the world!<\/p>\n
Among other things, our blog will be looking at a survey showing that many people do not believe the right-left coalition government is likely to stick together for a whole term.<\/p>\n
The German economy, which is currently facing manifold challenges, is also in focus as the head of an influential think tank warns on the effects of US tariffs.<\/p>\n
And we will continue to look at the fallout from the US announcement that it will withdraw thousands of troops from Germany over the coming months.<\/p>\n
Read on here for more on these and other stories on Sunday, May 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 60% of people in Germany think the conservative-led coalition will not last till 2029 elections The head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[8385,8388,261396,2000,299,1824,34115],"class_list":{"0":"post-934664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-coalition-government","10":"tag-conservative-bloc","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-merz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116509830401733082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}