by JAN TECHAU
For people outside Germany, the country’s pains at growing up as a foreign policy power often look wondrous and slightly bizarre—so morally charged is every debate, so infused with self-doubt, and often so…
by Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza & Markus Heinrich
Clichés like “don’t mention the war” have given way to modern Germany becoming an unlikely moral example to the world.
For German-Turkish relations, the recent vote…
by Gokhan Bacik*
The German parliament’s recent resolution declaring the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One a “genocide” could be a turning point not only for Turkey and Germany, but…
by O. Krumme Garcia
A bit more than two weeks ago, the German Parliament has approved, by a big majority, to deploy army troops and fighter jets for reconnaissance flights to Syria, to fight alongside…
by Nasim Ahmed
I was probably not alone in wanting to be surprised by British Prime Minister David Cameron as he made the case for air strikes against Daesh/ISIS in Syria to a packed parliament on…
by Matthias Bauer
The rise of populist parties across Europe is a severe threat to European integration. Irrespective of their underlying political ideologies, populist parties mainly benefit from widespread EU scepticism among their national constituencies. At…
by O. Krumme Garcia
For months, refugees desperately try to enter Europe, escaping from violence in their home countries to find safety in Europe. For months, some EU member states do everything possible to…
photo source: eubulletin
by Alexandre Barray
As many European countries are facing increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers, tensions are increasing in Europe. The European Commission revealed in a public opinion analysis released in July…
by O. Krumme-Garcia
These days, Europe only had two main subjects: on the one hand, the never ending Greek crisis, which has dominated the entire media coverage for the past weeks and months. On the…
(Photo taken from Aljazeera)
by Robert Heslop
With the recent allegations that the BND has been spying on allies for the NSA the spotlight is on the murky world of state espionage. In the summer of…