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Voting intention in Germany 2021-2025

Feb 21, 2025 | Elections

As of February 2025, the CDU look set to win the highest share of the vote in the next German Federal Election, due to be held on February 23, 2025. The CDU/CSU has seen a remarkable turn-around in its fortunes since the previous German federal election, when the party recorded its worst ever result in a nation-wide vote, securing only 24.1 percent of the vote. The party had struggled since the stepping down of its long-time chancellor, Angela Merkel, before the 2021 election. As dissatisfaction with the current governing coalition - known as the 'Ampel' coalition - of the Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals has increased, the Christian Democrats, now led by Friedrich Merz, have won increasing support. 

The Ampel's woes continue in 2024 

The Ampel coalition came to power in 2021 due to the surprise surge in support for the Social Democrats, who secured almost 26 percent of the vote in that election. Unwilling to re-enter a 'grand coalition' with the Christian Democrats, the SPD instead opted to create a coalition with the center-left environmentalist party, the Greens, and the free-market neoliberal party, the FDP. This unlikely coalition which promised to "dare to make more progress" (mehr Fortschritt wagen) has instead been mired by constant infighting between the three parties, as well as being hit by several external crises, most notably Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. At the same time, the German economy's post-pandemic recovery has faltered, with the country being one of the few European countries to experience a recession in 2023, while one of the government's key economic plans - a special investment fund designed to bypass the constitutional debt brake - was struck down by the constitutional court in Karlsruhe. 

These factors have led to consistently declining support for the three governing parties, with the latest poll showing their combined share of the vote being only 33 percent, slightly more than the vote share of the Christian Democrats. While the Greens' vote share would remain roughly equal to what they achieved in 2021, the popularity of the SPD and FDP has collapsed compared to their 2021 levels. The Social Democrats are now the third most popular party in Germany, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party on track to achieve their worst election result since 1887. The Liberals (FDP), on the other hand, look likely to not gain any seats in the parliament at all in the next election, as they are currently falling below the five percent threshold to enter the Bundestag (federal parliament). 

The rise of the far-right in German politics

The Ampel's loss has been the far-right's gain, as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has seen its fortunes rise consistently in opinion polls since the 2021 election. The party was originally founded to oppose plans for the EU to provide bailouts to struggling member states during the Eurozone debt crisis in the early 2010s, however, following the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis the party pivoted towards a hardline anti-immigration stance. Since then, the AfD has drifted consistently to the right, with one of the dominant factions, known as Der Flügel ("the wing"), being labelled far-right extremists and even, in some cases, fascists. While the federal-level party is currently led by Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupulla, members of the more moderate faction of the party, at the regional-level the party is often led by more extreme figures, such as in the state of Thuringia where party leader Björn Höcke has been labelled in the media as a far-right extremist. 

In January 2024, an article by investigative journalists brought to light secret meetings between AfD members and far-right supporters to discuss plans for mass deportations of foreigners from Germany, were the AfD to come to power. The scandal led to the largest street protests in the country so far this century, with estimates showing as many as 1.4 million people turning out across the country. Some protesters have even gone so far as to call for a constitutional ban against the AfD, claiming that they pose a threat to German democracy. The party suffered a drop in support in the aftermath of the scandal, with their share of prospective voters declining by four percent from their high-point in January of 2024. The Alternative for Germany currently is the party of choice for 18 percent of German voters, which would make them the second largest party in parliament after the Christian Democrats. While no other party currently says they would work with the AfD on a national level, this Brandmauer ("fire wall") may be tested in regional parliaments during 2024, as the party looks set to come first in several states in East Germany during the year. 

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Feb 20, 2025 | eSports

In January 2025, video streaming platform Twitch had approximately 7.7 million active streamers, down from a peak of 9.89 million in January 2021. The platform experienced a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many new users used the platform to connect with friends or try their hand at livestreaming. However, this trend normalized again towards the end of the year, and the streaming space has also grown more competitive as platforms apart from Twitch have evolved to attract streamers and viewers. 

Popular content categories on Twitch

In 2024, most of the  were all gaming-related – except for the top spot: Just Chatting. The general conversation category accumulated 2.8 billion hours of viewing time in the measured period. In October 2023, global Twitch audiences spent around 253 million hours on Twitch, with the average viewer count of such content reaching 347 thousand. KaiCenat was the most popular on Twitch in the most recently measured month.

Game streamers

Twitch is very popular with gamers and gaming audiences, and the ranking of the most popular Twitch streamers reflects this. Ninja (real name: Richard Tyler Blevins), the , had 19.14 million followers in December 2024. Ninja saw a meteoric rise to fame when he was one of the first top-ranked players to stream the then-newly released Fortnite Battle Royale at the end of 2017. Second-ranked ibai (real name: Ibai Llanos Garatea) was ranked second with 17.19 million followers on Twitch. 

With more than 9.4 million followers, Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, was the only woman among the most-followed Twitch streamers worldwide. Overall, of the top-ranked Twitch channels.

Feb 20, 2025 | Logistics

In 2024, the most actual and attempted piracy attacks - some 43- occurred off the straits of Singapore whilst only nine such attacks took place in the Philippines's waters. There were ten pirate attackes in Indonesia's waters that year, making Southeast Asia .

Feb 17, 2025 | Currencies

A list containing 213 different stablecoins reveals that only two of them had a market cap of over 10 billion USD in 2025. The likes of Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) are tied (pegged) to a "real-world" asset - in their case, the USD - whereas a coin like DAI is connected to the development of other cryptocurrencies. Algorithmic stablecoins have nearly no backing, but use an algorithm that creates more of a particular (crypto) asset within the same blockchain. Stablecoins as a group hit the news frequently in 2022, although . They are meant to be less volatile than, say, Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), or Shiba INU (SHIB), or other virtual currencies susceptible to significant price swings. , however, consistently hovers around a single USD as is tied (pegged) to the “real-world” U.S. dollar. As stablecoins are connected to physical currencies, they are not the same as Central Bank-Issued Digital Currencies or CBDC like the digital euro or China's e-CNY - which outright digitalize those same currencies.

Feb 18, 2025 | Politics & Government

In 2024, the total number of unique, registered lobbyists who have actively lobbied in the United States amounted to 13,007. This is an increase from the year before, when there were 12,925 registered lobbyists in the United States.

Feb 20, 2025 | Cinema & Film

As of February 2025, the highest-grossing opening recorded by a Walt Disney animated movie was “Moana 2". Released in 2024, it earned a total of 139.79 million U.S. dollars. Next on the list is “Frozen II,” which garnered about 130.26 million dollars during its opening. “Zootopia” and “Moana” also did well, standing in third and fourth positions respectively.

Feb 18, 2025 | Apps

In China, internet giants Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Alipay, and Douyin all have developed their own ecosystem of cloud-based embedded apps within their core mobile apps. As of December 2024, WeChat Mini Program was the most popular one, amassing about 936 million monthly active users in China.

Feb 18, 2025 | Refining

Shell owns the largest oil refinery in Europe. As of 2025, its Pernis, Netherlands, plant had a daily capacity of 425,000 barrels and was the only refinery with a capacity exceeding 400,000 barrels. Most of the region's largest oil refineries were operated by oil supermajors. Among them, Exxon and , two companies headquartered in Europe, were the only two to have more than one refinery listed among the ten 10 largest.

European countries with largest refining industry

There were nearly 90 oil refineries operated in Europe as of early 2024. Germany, as the largest economy in the region, has . This includes oil-producing countries such as Norway and the United Kingdom. The former is the , but only manages one refinery in its territory.

Why Europe remains a refining hub

Though indigenous oil production has decreased in Europe alongside greater , the region remains a hub for oil processing. This is primarily due to its continued high demand for oil products and the benefit of its proximity to large consumer markets. As of 2023, Europe and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries had a combined  of nearly 19 million barrels per day.  

Feb 17, 2025 | Advertising

In 2024, advertising spending in Latin America and the Caribbean amounted to an estimated 31.66 billion U.S. dollars, up from 25.31 billion dollars a year earlier – an annual growth of 25 percent. stood at 4.1 percent in 2024.

Feb 18, 2025 | Demographics

Nigeria has the largest population in Africa. As of 2024, the country counted over 232.6 million individuals, whereas Ethiopia, which ranked second, has around 132 million inhabitants. Egypt registered the largest population in North Africa, reaching nearly 116 million people. In terms of inhabitants per square kilometer, Nigeria only ranks seventh, while Mauritius has the highest on the whole African continent.

The fastest-growing world region

Africa is the second most populous continent in the world, after Asia. Nevertheless, Africa records the highest growth rate worldwide, with by over two percent every year. In some countries, such as Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Chad, the peaks at over three percent. With so many births, Africa is also the youngest continent in the world. However, this coincides with a low life expectancy. 

African cities on the rise

The last decades have seen high urbanization rates in Asia, mainly in China and India. However, African cities are currently growing at larger rates. Indeed, most of the are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gwagwalada, in Nigeria, and Kabinda, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ranked first worldwide. By 2035, instead,  to be Bujumbura, in Burundi, and Zinder, Nigeria.

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