At the same time, a drop in left-wing rates occurred while the results of the elections highlighted the presence of the Greens in East Germany. The election results showed that 1 in 3 voters chose either the “Alternative fur Deutschland” (AfD) or left party. The percentages of the extreme right (AfD) increased mainly in youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The reasons for increasing the electoral rates of the AFD<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the formation of the local government in both states will be a\nparticularly difficult puzzle, as three-party coalitions will be needed to\nprevent the AFD from participating in these governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fact that the AfD rates increased is a warning to the decision-makers\nthat they should look in detail at the problems of people in these areas and in\ngeneral in Eastern Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The convergence of wages and living standards between West and East Germany\nhas been achieved to a large extent, despite the difference between them and\nsince wages in East Germany are lower by 20% than their respective wages in\nWest Germany. Unemployment in East Germany is also low (6%) but higher than the\nannual unemployment rates at national level (3,7% 2018, Source: Eurostat).<\/p>\n\n\n\n It should be pointed out that the lack of large enterprises and the\nnon-modernization of infrastructure in East Germany that will act as a magnet\nfor new and existing businesses to relocate their headquarters there, is a\ncrucial element for the rise of AfD, particularly in the ranks of youth in East\nGermany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Policies to <\/strong>address<\/strong> the election rise of AFD in East Germany \n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The implementing policies to address the electoral rise of the AfD are in domestic investment. In particular, the federal government of Germany should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.<\/strong> To create thematic and technological parks in all the L\u00e4nder of East Germany to attract start-ups to innovative technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One way of attracting them will be to legislate that any start-ups\ncompanies and others also if they choose\nto place their headquarters in the specific technology parks, for seven\nconsecutive years will not pay a corporate tax if all of their profits, for the\nsame amount of time, invest them each year in their company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will result in the gradual development of these companies that will continually seek new skilled workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.<\/strong> These companies should establish relations with the local universities of East Germany in order to further develop the R&D sections of these universities to produce specialised technological graduates who will find work in these technological innovation companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The drastic attraction of students from all over Germany and not only, to these universities in East Germany will create a gradual increase in real estate sector in these areas by increasing the corresponding demand for services with simultaneous increase in the incomes of local populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.<\/strong> Local governments in the states of East Germany should devise and implement plans to modernize existing road infrastructure with the low environmental footprint being characteristic of these projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. <\/strong>Modernization of the telecommunications network (e.g. upgrading to 5G) should be launched by pilot programs from East Germany. This policy will greatly help innovative technology companies who will choose to place their headquarters in these states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.<\/strong> A corresponding reduction in corporate tax for large enterprises and when they decide to transfer part of their huge production, creating factories, in the states of East Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.<\/strong> In addition, in the whole of Germany, and particularly in East Germany, should be legislated a reduction in the rate of tax charged to salary employment in order to increase the rate of salaried work and new recruitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.<\/strong> Strengthening social infrastructure for single-parent families and not only, by local governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the implementation of these policies will increase the\npercentage of new companies that will choose to operate from the states of East\nGermany which then companies will require an ever-greater upgrade of local\nInfrastructure for the continuous attraction of high-educated employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, transferring part of the production-factories of large\nenterprises to East Germany will absorb more and more young workers who will\nhave the least educational skills, in order to reduce unemployment in these categories\nof young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The convergence of living standards between West and East Germany will not\ncreate a fertile ground for the political arguments of the AfD in the ranks of\nGerman youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Sunday, the results of the elections in the two states of the former East Germany, Brandenburg and Saxony made interesting and alarming results,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,390],"tags":[1038,1036,1039,1037],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","tag-afd","tag-cdu","tag-east-germany","tag-spd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}