The holidays are over and the appointment circus in Brussels has begun again. Despite the advance of the ultra-right in Germany, the method of solving problems remains the same and does not focus on the causes, but rather on the usual bubble problems: gender balance in the formation of the College of Commissioners. So much so that Romania had to change gears and appoint Roxana Mînzatu instead of Victor Negrescu.

For the time being, there is still no sign of how to create a truly unified economic and defense policy that gives concrete answers to the last who, pissed off as hell, vote for the extremes, with all due respect to slogans like "leaving no one behind" that pro-European families fill their mouths with. 

The success of the far right in Germany is predictable and expected. The AfD has been on the 25% consensus for years; now it has broken through the 30% mark. Immigration, the economic crisis and the Green Deal are the workhorses of a party that is becoming the safety valve of a Germany that cannot cope with the pressures of globalization. And which the left has abandoned. In Thuringia, the AfD trailed the CDU by nearly 10 points, marking the first victory of a far-right party in a German state since World War II.