Mainstream parties should have opposed the far right’s anti-migrant narrative after the Solingen knife attack, not condoned it. In Thuringia, they paid the priceEvents of the past few days in Germany are a chilling reflection of political atrophy and o…
While all eyes are on France’s spot election, Germans too may soon face an early vote.
Relations between France and Germany have entered an ice age under President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, an unprecedented state of affairs that contrasts sharply with the iconic photo of Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl holding hands…
This is the second time this week that the U.S. president has mixed up European leaders.
The death of veteran finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble marks the end of the post-war generation of Francophile German politicians and heralds rockier relations for the EU’s Franco-German “engine” as Berlin shifts its focus eastward.
Anyone who wants to be the former leader’s heir must strive to not just complete his unfinished project but relaunch it with the same personal commitment, rigor and creativity.
The longest-serving parliamentarian in German history, who played a pivotal role in reunification after the fall of the Berlin WallWolfgang Schäuble, who has died aged 81, was a giant of German public life, epitomising the successes, anxieties and obdu…
