After a busy 2024 “super election year”, we keep looking at elections taking place in 2025. Joan Lanfranco, Head of Communications and Outreach at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's EU office in Brussels unpacks election results with the insights of colleagues and partners around the world. Who’s winning? Who’s losing? And what’s at stake for the EU and the global order?

In this episode we focus on the snap federal elections in Germany 🇩🇪, which took place on Sunday 23 February 2025. Our guest is Dietrich Hermann, since 2024 Head of the Government, Administration and Political Parties Division at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's headquarters in Berlin. Dietrich holds a PhD in modern history from the Free University of Berlin. From 1994 to 2013 he worked in political science research at Dresden University. He worked at the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Saxon State Parliament from 2015 to 2020. From 2020 to 2022, he established the new Department of Citizen Participation in the Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Democracy, Europe and Equality.

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• Read the commentary "After the 2025 German Federal election: maintaining the ability to compromise among democrats" by Dietrich Herrmann.
• Watch the recording of our webinar "Germany has voted: What next for Europe?", which we organised on 26 February 2025.

Host: Joan Lanfranco

Edition and visuals: Laura Moreno

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