‘Bitter’, that’s what the German chancellor Olaf Scholz called the election results in the ‘Länder’ Saxony and Thuringia. And bitter they were for his SPD party, for his Traffic Light coalition and the CDU. What could be the appreciation of last weekend’s results from a Christian perspective?

The weeks before the European elections were an avalanche for Valeriia Petrechkiv. From her student apartment in Paris, France, she follows the EU integration of her home country, Ukraine.

For the German pastor Joachim Kuhs (67), his pastorate and work as an MEP for the radical-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party go well together. "There is no more Christian party program in Germany than ours."

"Over the past 30 years, the atmosphere in Slovak society has become very harsh." So states Bishop Robert Géresi of the Reformed Christian Church of Slovakia (RCCS). He responds to the attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico.

German churches are struggling with the ideas of the radical-right Alternative für Deutschland party. According to the Evangelische Kirche Deutschland(EKD), which is the Protestant folk church in Germany, and the Katholische Kirche (Roman Catholic Church), its views are incompatible with the Christian faith. Pastors who openly support the party face disciplinary action.