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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