Una Germania senza freno, ovvero: trasformare una crisi in catarsi

Abstract

A Germany without brakes, or: transforming a crisis into catharsis – After the vote on 23 February 2025, Germany appears to be a country marked by fear, anxiety, anger and divisions that threaten to undermine its constitutional identity. After a report on the election result and its consequences for the German political balance, the essay describes the reactions of the parties to the vote. With a procedure dictated by the extraordinary nature of the current emergency, not without aspects of dubious constitutionality, but nevertheless endorsed by the Federal Constitutional Court, a qualified majority of conservatives, social democrats and greens has adopted an investment plan aimed at relaunching a nation at a social, economic and military standstill, in an attempt to counter the suffering on which anti-establishment parties have built their growing consensus, aiming to undermine the democratic nature of the German constitutional order from within.

Keywords: Germany; Elections; Debt brake; Anti-democratic parties; Constitutional identity