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Robin Brooks
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Senior Fellow at @brookings.edu. Previously Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs.
I need to add Norway, bear with me...
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is just from Deutschland Waehlt, which shares the latest polls for Germany. It's on X, not sure about Bluesky...
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not sure I agree. You just have to walk around Germany's major cities to know that immigration is a problem and I personally don't feel safe in many situations, which is something I never used to worry about. I think this is a genuine issue unfortunately.
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There's nothing racist about wanting to reform the immigration system in Germany, which is broken. That's not an issue that's unique to Germany. The asylum laws in many places allow lots of economic refugees to take advantage of them, when they are intended for protection of political refugees...
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I don't understand this argument, though I do hear it a lot. Why do you think the CDU confronting immigration helps the AfD?
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thanks so much for flagging. These fake accounts are so tedious...
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Actually no. It's countries like Sweden, Norway and Denmark that are really massively stepping up with aid to Ukraine, plus obviously Germany and the UK. The Euro zone - especially highly indebted countries like Italy and Spain - are not at all living up to their responsibility, which I flag here...
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM