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Is Germany making the same Russia mistake — just in reverse?

What Trump’s security doctrine really means for Germany

Soldiers at Christmas Markets: Is This Germany’s Security Future?

A narrow win on pensions is testing Merz' leadership

Could changing Germany’s sex work laws make sex workers less safe?

Fireworks, water cannon and flying fists outside the AfD youth congress

The German vigilantes who ended up on Trump's terror list

A podcast comment, a resignation, and a reminder of Germany's historical duty

Is this Germany's 'Stop the Steal'?

Pension reform sparks crisis inside Merz’s CDU

Germany’s New Sonderweg: Why the ‘Special Path’ Theory Matters in 2025

Is German democracy under threat (again)?

Germany’s Mobile Dead Zones: Why Reception Is Still So Bad

Hot metal, cold economics - the unravelling of German steel

Holocaust denial in Germany: an alarming case of mission creep

A cancelled trip, a chip crisis, and Germany’s China problem

Understand Germany — Clearly.

Germany’s ‘Stadtbild’ Debate Explained: Merz, Migration and Political Fallout

End of the Brandmauer, Part II

Berlin might still be sexy, but it sure ain’t poor

Germany Plans Major Unemployment Benefit Reform — What You Need to Know

The Bundeswehr should play a bigger role in defending against drones

Why German officials are talking to the Taliban

The death of domestic aviation

Germany’s Cannabis Legalisation: What’s Working — And What Isn’t

Why Germany is so reluctant to clamp down on smoking. And what it's got to do with Hitler.

Are the SPD about to take the axe to the welfare state?

A German pro-life rally in the shadow of the Kirk murder

Coming up: meeting Germany's pro-life movement

A bellwether of broader national struggles?

‘The school system in Germany is still quite unequal’

The resurrection of the German car industry

The 'political prisoner' the German media would prefer to forget

The 'bullshit' row over Germany’s social state

‘We won't surrender to fear’: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian restaurant struggling to survive in Berlin

10 years of 'wir schaffen das'

Should German troops protect a ceasefire in Ukraine?

Merz the international diplomat?

How Trump's tariffs could force Germany out of its comfort zone

The End of Staatsräson?

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'Scrapping turbo citizenship sends a message to immigrants... the wrong message'

Not a man nor a mouse survived – thrilling, don’t you think?

Constitutional conundrums, Covid costs

Israel and the AfD divide

Rainbows over Berlin

Mr Merz: Out of Office

FKK in Germany: Where Nudity Is Normal — and Privacy Sacred

Hijabs... Habeck... ha-choo!

Are Germany's NGOs too powerful?

The big white giant

The F-word and the R-word

The fugitive living in a Munich villa

The wine, the greatcoat and the rifle

Merz starts with a bang

Toppling the King

Protecting the constitution or protecting the government?

Germany in the world

Merz just became chancellor... just

Germany in decline: why the country’s old model is failing

Berlin blooms, German DOGE, golden handshakes

The rise of the AfD: why Germany’s hard right keeps gaining ground

Out of the dark

Death threats, free speech, Napoleon

Friedrich Merz and the AfD viper

Blue collar no more

Time to repair Nord Stream?

Germany’s election system is a scandal

The word that broke the Brandmauer

What is the point of the CDU?

The man from the 1990s

The truth on Covid at last?

Time to bring back military conscription

Trump to the rescue!

Using data to pick the next German government

My thoughts on Sunday's German election

1 day to go!

Two days to go!

Three days to go!

Four days to go!

The viral video that CHANGES EVERYTHING!!

Europe's feeble democracies

She's behind you!

10 days to go...

11 days to go

12 days to go...

13 days to go…

Renting in Germany: why protection has turned into paralysis

Tumult in the Bundestag

Sweaty palms, pale cheeks

The fall of the Wall

Kafka's children

Election diary, Jan 19th

Why Alice Weidel Called Hitler “Left-Wing” — and What It Reveals About the AfD

Scholzmacher; AfD on the up: Election Diary Jan 12th