For this week’s ”The Europe Dispatch” with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social I looked at what yesterday’s Merz mayhem tells us about Germany’s leadership prospects and wider power dynamics in Europe. Looks like the smaller states will have to continue their efforts to keep Europe on the right track.

Thank you, I could only nod along in reading. "That, in turn, is one of the many legacies of Angela Merkel" - what in that time caused the now lack of leadership potential? "the trend of larger European states being unable to offer stable leadership on the continent". Yes. it is visible. But why?