The Aftermath of the Bundestag Election

The results of the 2021 German federal election on September 26th represent not only a turning point for the German society but also a very important political juncture for German and European politics as Chancellor Angela Merkel is preparing to step down after leading Europe’s biggest economy for 16 years.
This time of political transition is everything but a minor affair since it involves a considerable reshuffling of the political composition of the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany’s parliament, as well as the formation of a new coalition government that will seek to both build on past policies and address the multiple remaining next to the pressing new challenges for the so-called European locomotive.