As a metaphor for the German state having rings run around it by barely literate, violent migrant gangs the image of a police car up on bricks having had its wheels stolen is a powerful one.
This is the cover of the latest edition of Der Spiegel, the high circulation, high brow news magazine which is this week questioning the Federal government with the emboldened headline âState Impotenceâ â a play on words leaving âState Powerâ in black text and the modifier in white. [..]
Germany, Der Spiegel has grown to become one of Europeâs most important and influential magazines. The latest edition paints a bleak picture of Germany where the government has failed to discharge its basic duties of protecting the citizen, and even looks to a future solution without Chancellor Merkel. [..]
âNow there is a hope. The nation state is needed, but he is in poor condition. He could not protect the oppressed women in Cologne, he receives the influx of refugees that is out of control. He can provide no good framework for life in Germany, but he must. The challenge now is to create a good stateâ.