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What a scorcher!
Heatwaves, rainbows, wrist slaps
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Jörg Luyken

June 2025

Mr Merz: Out of Office
Germany’s government is splashing cash to jolt the economy, but mounting debt, looming pension costs, and a distracted chancellor abroad raise doubts…
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Jörg Luyken
FKK and other contradictions
Germany is a nation of contradictions—celebrating nudity yet guarding privacy, excelling in engineering but mired in bureaucracy, and promoting green…
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Rachel Stern
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Hijabs... Habeck... ha-choo!
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Jörg Luyken
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Are Germany's NGOs too powerful?
A €39 grant for an anti-extremism protest sparked a national controversy over state-funded NGOs, political bias, and alleged misuse of democracy…
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Jörg Luyken
The big white giant
1970s behemoths + Merz in America + sexy statues
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Jörg Luyken
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The F-word and the R-word
Dear Reader,
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Jörg Luyken
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May 2025

The fugitive living in a Munich villa
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Jörg Luyken
The wine, the greatcoat and the rifle
Back in 2016, I went on a road trip around the Czech Republic and Slovakia with a friend I’d met a few years earlier in the Middle East.
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Jörg Luyken
Merz starts with a bang
Will Germany’s security strategy be transformed under Merz, or is he merely better at setting the next day’s headlines than his predecessor was?
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Jörg Luyken
Toppling the King
The reign of Peter I of Germany ended abruptly this week
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Jörg Luyken
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Protecting the constitution or protecting the government?
On the BfV intelligence agency's new report on the AfD
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Jörg Luyken
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