Germany’s super-election year is a wild card
With the federal government now perceived as mishandling the pandemic and corruption tainting the CDU, the autumn Bundestag election is one to watch.
‘The day of liberation is a bit like a second birthday for me’
Knut Dethlefsen offers a personal reflection on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
A new start for transatlantic social democracy?
A Biden administration could join forces with progressive Europe to rebut polarising populism on both sides of the pond.
Germany’s Zeitenwende of 1989-90 and its contemporary European reverberations
Sepia images of the historical sweep via the fall of the Berlin wall to the reunification of Germany, and so of Europe, look much clearer than today’s turning point.