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  1. The Economist22 min

    Left field: a new force in German politics

    Sahra Wagenknecht, Rosie Bloor, Tom Nuffel, Caitlin Talbot

    In Germany, Sarah Wagenknecht's new party secured 6% of the European vote and won three state elections by merging left-wing economics with right-leaning positions on immigration and Ukraine, though her refusal to support US missile deployments has stalled coalition talks. Simultaneously, Moldova faced intense Russian interference that narrowed its EU membership referendum to a 50.2% margin and forced President Maia Sandu into a runoff after failing to win a first-round majority. Finally, TikTok is accelerating English linguistic evolution by generating roughly 100 neologisms annually and fostering "AlgoSpeak" to bypass content moderation, while introducing distinctive features like the "uptalk" accent.