Election security

Russian threat: one lady lost the vote but the other one is moving forward to that result

Merkel’s Campaign Takes a Hard Line on Russia

With their re-election next year very much in mind, Angela Merkel and the members of her Christian Democratic Union are staking out positions on Russia that, for now, make them the toughest tough-talkers in the West.

The chancellor’s line on the likelihood of Germany’s 2017 political and voting process being hacked: “I say this simply—these cyber-attacks, including those that are called hybrid measures in Russia’s doctrine, now belong to every-day occurrence.”

Her view of the attacks by Russia and Iran in support of Syria’s assault on its civilians: “Crimes that must be punished.”