In a sense the worst thing Starmer ever did to the Conservative Party was to give it hope this early in the electoral cycle

One of the more interesting bits of research would be to line up the heartlands of the post-WW1 Heimwehren with current regions of highest support for the FPÖ

I can see Ukraine entering into full Single Market integration. I'd say that's even a likely scenario. Full membership with MEPs and a seat on EUCO is another matter

You already have fraught negotiation and engagement processes right now surrounding the extent of Ukraine's integration in the Single Market that involve opposition stoked by various Far Right groups over agriculture and migration. That would extend into postwar planning and debate

I found how this aspect of why Sunak might have lost to Truss was played down at the time rather baffling

Ultimately it only works as a non-profit kept afloat like the foundations of a lot of global tech infrastructure because it is in the systemic interests of various corporate, state and civil society actors who don't need it to be directly profitable for it to help their interests

I.e. pre Euro. Long history of really nasty tone to Greeks, Spanish, Italian topics

Since Augstein

On that theme

I don't think the German media and political system is structured to cope with a world where CEE and Med EU states have more dynamic and technologically advanced business sectors than the Northerners. Where Eurozone crisis era hierarchies are flipped upside down.