Germania: elezioni europee e nuovi equilibri politici

In the 2019 EU elections pro-Europe parties confirmed themselves as a majority despite the increasing strength of the right-wing nationalist forces. Nonetheless, the new EU Parliament differs sensibly from the previous one and several novelties marked this electoral event. Germany was no exception in this regard, with its thorny domestic situation at the eve of the EU election. The article dwells into these peculiarities by providing, first, a picture of the German electoral results and of the geographical vote distribution for the EU, and then a discussion on the new EU Parliament and Commission, led by the former German Minister of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen. Some final remarks on the role of Germany and of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the new domestic and European equilibria are proposed