Angela Merkel’s first principles
The former chancellor’s memoir Freedom reveals how her childhood in East Germany helped forge a doctrine of moral decency and…
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How did it go so wrong for Germany?
The former economic superpower is mired in a deep structural slump.
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The collapse of Germany’s government
The country is now condemned to a political vacuum for months.
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How Kraftwerk’s Autobahn remade pop
Half a century ago, the art-rock band introduced the world to the vocoder. Their sound – and pop music –…
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The left must resist the seductions of austerity
Britain and Germany are walking into the same fiscal doom loop.
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Putin stares down the West
With Russia’s war economy roaring, the balance of power is shifting in the Kremlin’s favour.
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Life after retirement at the BBC
Also this week: savage cuts at Radio 4, and woman as temptress.
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The many-faceted influence of Sahra Wagenknecht
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a particular niche that the left-wing politician is filling with apparent ease.
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Ursula von der Leyen is damaging EU unity
The European Commission president has let a personal rivalry sour the relationship between Germany and France.
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Germany’s lesson for Labour
Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders to mass migration has proved a gift to the far right.
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The far right’s triumph has left Germany in a mess
The firewalls that prevent the country’s centrist parties from governing with the radical right and left are cracking.
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Germany’s hard-right architecture
Conservatives are reconstructing their own imagined nation.
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Ukraine’s involvement in the Nord Stream plot complicates things
Germany’s support is wavering.
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Germany’s delusional China strategy
Berlin can’t shield German companies from the reality of geopolitics.
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Why I was banned from Germany
In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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The German SPD’s foolish attachment to Putin’s Russia
Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party refuses to abandon its nostalgic ties to Moscow – and is paying a heavy political price.
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Germany is on the brink of economic decline
Digital investment is being cut and industry is stuck in the past, in a country where the fax machine still…
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Austerity is coming for Europe
Heed Germany’s lesson: when austerity bites, investment is the first thing to go.
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Germany and its discontents
Protests, purges and the crack-up of a nation.
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