Dear Reader,

After I asked you last week to tell friends about the newsletter, over a dozen new readers subscribed to the mailing list within a day. A big thank you to those of you who helped out!

For anyone who didn’t get around to sharing it, I’d really appreciate it if you could do that today.

As a reminder: I need around 500 paying subscribers to ensure that the newsletter has a long-term future. I’m pretty confident that there are 500 English speakers out there who would find this newsletter useful. Finding them is the problem!

That’s where you come in. All of you together know far more people in Germany than I do - and you know which of your friends are looking for reliable and insightful news. Your explicit recommendation is the most powerful tool I have.

So if you are active on Twitter or other social media channels, please share a recent newsletter (or the homepage) there.

Or, even better, forward a recent newsletter to a few friends with a short recommendation. You can always incl…