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I n recent days, Angela Merkel’s visit in Sochi to meet President Vladimir Putin, followed by Emmanuel Macron’s flight to St. Pietersburg to meet the former KGB lieutenant recently elected President…
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S candalising improprieties in how asylum requests were processed at individual branches of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is hypocritical because it overlooks the political context in which…
A s part of our Monday Talks Series, Verena Humer and Bastian Kenn of the European Democracy Lab discuss their concept of a “European Republic” with Julien Hoez; delving into how this project could herald…
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I n the real world, unfortunately, there are no superheroes to save the day. When the destiny of the European Union and its achieved level of integration - what is called…
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T he current debate around Islam in Germany reveals that Germany has not yet made up its mind as to whether it is ready to embrace its new status a country…
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L otus Coffman, the fifth president of the University of Minnesota, said: "The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated…
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W ithin the now all-consuming drive of Emmanuel Macron, Guy Verhofstadt and other European leaders to reform the EU, the European gaze has once again focused entirely on the core western…
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[dropcap size=small]T Turkey and Israel were once close allies, bonded as two states surrounded by hostile regimes. However, Turkey has stated in recent days that US President Donald Trump’s move to declare…
[dropcap size=small]O ne week after the breakdown of German coalition talks, things are slowly moving into gear.
Following an intervention by the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democrats (SPD) abandoned their outright rejection…
G ermany’s main political parties have no new ideas about the country’s role in Europe and don’t even debate reforms at home.
During Germany’s 2005 federal election campaign, then opposition leader Angela Merkel had ambitious…