The episode analyzes the unanimous approval of Volkswagen's austerity plan by its supervisory board, which secures a mandate for CEO Oliver Blume to cut 100,000 jobs while preserving co-determination rights for four at-risk plants. It also covers the political collapse of the BSW party in Thuringia, where nine MPs resigned in protest against Sarah Wagenknecht's strategy, destabilizing the state coalition just before the Saxony-Anhalt election. Finally, political scientist Konrad Ziller discusses research showing that criticism of German reunification has shifted from a left-wing economic is…
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