Vladimir Putin has just accepted Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to attend a summit on Ukraine in Paris in “Normandy format”. Invented by President Holland on June…
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There’s no escaping the anniversary in the German media. 30 years ago, Günter Schabowski famously declared at the East German government press conference of 9…
The signature of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, on January 22, gave rise to a lot of hope, particularly in…
Ongoing tensions in the federal coalition, the disastrous showing for the CDU’s sister party in Bavaria, the CSU, in the Bavarian elections and now a…
When cracks appear, they can either be fixed, or they can be papered over for a while, or they can start to spread dangerously. The…
The current disagreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats and the Bavarian Christian Socialists (centre-right parties continuously allied since the creation of the Federal Republic)…
The post-war world was blessed with a period of peace and prosperity that is clearly coming to an end. The strikes against Syrian chemical weapons…
Frank-Walter Steinmeier looked a little sheepish. Standing in front of his German presidential flag, the new federal President gave his Christmas address to the German…
A week is a long time in politics, they say. A week before September’s Federal German elections, all seemed reasonably well for Angela Merkel and…
First there was Brexit. Then the Dutch election when the PVV showed a more than 30 per cent gain. Then the unexpectedly good electoral performance…