Wolfgang Münchau

So Eric Schmidt absolutely appalled by what is happening, also saying in The Washington Post that the war is being lost.

And now a third article in UnHerd, which is by the way a sister newspaper magazine of The Spectator, they're owned by the same person, by Wolfgang Munchau, German economist, fairly influential person.

He says that the West is involved, caught up in two wars, and both of these wars are being lost.

And he said something very interesting.

Welcome to the Eurointelligence Podcast.

I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me are Susanne Munchenk and Jack Smith.

We're back after a long holiday, back to a political earthquake in Germany, reverberating to the rest of Europe, the election victory of the AFD.

in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

And the repercussions of this, not only for Germany, but for the rest of Europe, are huge.

Of course, the person we want to talk to about this this morning is our very own Wolfgang Munchau, the unheard columnist and star of Econoclasts.

Welcome back to Unheard, Wolfgang.

Good morning, Freddie.

The times when political parties achieved that, that record are over.

And the 44% result is absolutely sensational in our modern politics.

Wolfgang Munchau, thank you so much for your time.

That was Unheard's Wolfgang Munchau, also the author of the brilliant Eurointelligence Daily Report.

I'll talk about some interesting guests.

We had on, um, a guest, Wolfgang Munchau, who wrote a book called, um, Kaputt: The End of the German Economic Miracle.

Mm-hmm.

And he was on pretty recently.

Welcome back to The Econoclasts.

It is my great pleasure to welcome back to the program Wolfgang Munchau, who has been away, um, very much deserved holiday.

And I have to say that currently I speak to you from the Mediterranean Sea.

This is a boat floating.

I think he's always really interesting.

Someone like UnHerd, Wolfgang Munchau, who I still in my mind think of as basically a Financial Times guy, um, has quite interesting center-right analyses of, you know, the German car industry or whatever.

But you're right that generally speaking, there isn't an outlet, and you go, "These are really serious people." You know, you get it with the FT, and that, and that's kind of about it.

And it's really interesting, when you go a-abroad, you might go to, you know, the Nordic countries, and you'll go to, I don't know, a train station in Oslo.