German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Berlin yesterday that the election results in Saxony-Anhalt on Sun. will have domestic consequences as well as implications for the international situation. When nearly 60% of the voters opt for political parties that fundamentally cast doubt on our institutions and rules of the game, he said in reference to AfD, Die Linke and BSW, it's not something we can just brush aside. Czech PM Andrej Babiš said in Prague at about the same time that he doesn't think AfD's election victory means anything for the Czech Republic. He reduced it to an economic and EU-budget issue and said that what's important for us is how Germany votes on the European Council. ARD reported his words in the evening news a few hours later and said that Babiš knows Saxony-Anhalt very well as a businessman given that Agrofert has invested €1.6bn there. You could say that Babiš has 1.6bn reasons not to want any political turmoil in Saxony-Anhalt.