It is repeated a lot in times so convulsive that, in democracy, politics should be a boring thing . The latter may be excessive, but the seriousness, stability and normal functioning of the institutions are regaining weight in a space today dominated by populist demagogy and anti-political sophlamas.

Germany is a good paradigm of this storm that today shakes Western democracies. The results of the last general elections lit a great coalition between conservatives and social democrats less than two years ago to prevent the country from falling into the grip of ungovernability . Well, the data confirm that it is working better than expected and that more than half of the agreed initiatives have already been launched, around 40% socialist proposals, above their weight in the Executive. And, nevertheless, this one does not manage to sell its achievements so much by the furious attacks of the extremist parties of left and right, with great echo, as by the fact that neither the CDU nor the SPD defend with conviction their coalition.

The German Social Democrats have not been able to shake off their prejudices as demonstrated in their federal congress this weekend, in which it has been approved to give the party a leftist turn . And, although they have not dared to break the great coalition - among other reasons, because they fear a blow in an electoral advance - they warn that they will tighten the nuts to Chancellor Merkel to print a much more social character to the Government.

Nothing in Germany has to win either of the two major parties taking things to an impossible crossroads. The Socialists fear the unstoppable rise of formations further to their left and Los Verdes, while the CDU continues to give way to the extreme right . Thus, what is responsible is for the great coalition to continue proving effective and for its two members to row in the same direction so that the citizens value their achievements. Stability in Germany is also vital for the entire EU, both economically, since Berlin remains the undisputed locomotive, as well as politically, because only with its push will it be possible to advance integration.

With realism and seriousness the German socialists can boost a stimulus of their economy, so healthy that it has margins for it. Because measures are needed to boost the industrial increase - production has fallen to a minimum since 2009 - and exports. Germany has just avoided the technical recession by the minimum and that does force the Government to take a turn to return to the path of growth . The SPD should know that this is the true social.

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