One year ago today, Germany's new leader Olaf Schulz gave a speech to the country's parliament. The word he used was Zaitenvenda, a turning in time. He pledged an extra hundred billion euros on defense - about double the annual defense budget. His political party had preached a line of pacifying Russia since the 1970s.
Excitement still surrounds the spoiler candidate Peter Obi, whose down-to-earth ways appeal to a large constituency of fed-up youths. We look at the early returns. A year ago Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, announced a tremendous shift in defence policy and funding; we ask how far the warship has turned since then. And remembering Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite composer.
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