The rise of the far right, the revival of the Liberals and the collapse of the Social Democrats were commented on at length at European level on Monday 25 September, the day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party came out victorious in the German general elections, returning her to power for the fourth time in a row.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker warmly congratulated Merkel in person and in a letter. He stressed that in light of current...