Based on the wikipedia section you shared, Dopfner’s criticism of Google, Kuwait Airlines and the German political establishment seems quite mainstream and liberal left. Could it be that you take offense with his Zionism? That is the only thing that doesn’t sound mainstream.
He is linked to Peter Thiel via his sons endeavors in the US
He used his position and influence to push support for political parties a the publisher
The controversy around Julian Reichelts abuse of power at the Axel Springer Verlag highlights a “tech bro”-like environments at Bild, the main paper of the publisher.
Okay, that warrants concern about the publisher, but none of it directly implicates Politico Europe.
Döpfner made clear after the acquisition that he intends to push the same “values” in Politico as in the rest of the publishing house.
Did he ever use his losigom and influence to pish support for far right parties? Which parties?
Not openly, but the narrative and framing pushed by the Bild paper sits firmly between CDU/CSU and AfD positions and frequently contains articles that only barely miss the classification as hit pieces against actual left leanings actors.
Döpfner praised US Vice President JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech, where he called for an end to the political isolation of the European far right. Döpfner called the response by European leaders “whiny.”[29]
It’s the financial times, I can’t access it is paywalled. So I cannot check your statement that Dopfner said not only that Europeans responses were whiny, but that he endorsed far right positions.
In seiner Rede hatte der US-Vize unterstellt, es gebe keine Meinungsfreiheit in Europa. Und dies als größere Bedrohung für die Region als Russland oder China bezeichnet. In einem Interview mit dem »Wall Street Journal« hatte Vance zudem der deutschen Politik geraten, mit allen Parteien zusammenzuarbeiten – also ausdrücklich auch mit der AfD.
Geht es nach Döpfner, dann habe Vance sagen wollen, dass Washington mit Europa zusammenarbeiten wolle – der Kontinent zunächst aber definieren müsse, wofür er stehe, und aufhören müsse, Angst vor seinen eigenen Leuten zu haben.
»Ehrlich gesagt finde ich, dass es eine inspirierende Botschaft ist«, sagte Döpfner der »Financial Times«. »Man muss nicht alles wörtlich nehmen, aber man sollte versuchen, es ernst zu nehmen.« Es sei strategisch unklug und sogar gefährlich, dass »die meisten Europäer nur in einem weinerlichen Tonfall reagiert haben«, sagte Döpfner. Schließlich brauche Europa ein transatlantisches Sicherheitsbündnis und eine transatlantische Handelsbeziehung.
It is legit in the sense that the Axel Springer Verlag is a tax paying publishing establishment. Other than that, however, there is not much credibility. You might also want to read up on the owner Mathias Döpfner and his legal billion Euro tax scam.
Based on the wikipedia section you shared, Dopfner’s criticism of Google, Kuwait Airlines and the German political establishment seems quite mainstream and liberal left. Could it be that you take offense with his Zionism? That is the only thing that doesn’t sound mainstream.
You might want to switch to the German pages for some juicer bits. I mainly posted the English page for the international audience here.
Short summary for non-German speakers:
Okay, that warrants concern about the publisher, but none of it directly implicates Politico Europe.
Did he ever use his losigom and influence to pish support for far right parties? Which parties?
Döpfner made clear after the acquisition that he intends to push the same “values” in Politico as in the rest of the publishing house.
Not openly, but the narrative and framing pushed by the Bild paper sits firmly between CDU/CSU and AfD positions and frequently contains articles that only barely miss the classification as hit pieces against actual left leanings actors.
Yeah, so left wing…
Half of the commentators here complain nonstop that European politicians are too whiny and need to be more assertive!
As much as I find such simplifications useless (on how heads of state should act), that does not indicate their political affiliation.
So praising a right winger’s endorsement of the european far right as inspiring is somehow something the left would do? Do you really think that?
Source please.
Naturally, I did not claim that.
The source is linked above. That [29].
You just claimed that Döpfner seems to be representing liberal left mainstream opinions. I provided evidence that that is not quite the case.
It’s the financial times, I can’t access it is paywalled. So I cannot check your statement that Dopfner said not only that Europeans responses were whiny, but that he endorsed far right positions.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/j-d-vance-mathias-doepfner-nennt-rede-inspirierend-und-europaeer-weinerlich-a-46ab5fa4-0b56-46c8-aa1a-287ce66b2917