Germany
Germany is in the grip of a Covid crisis
Germany’s ‘lockdown light’ strategy has failed: the country, which has been widely-praised for its response to the pandemic, recorded a daily…
Europe’s slow vaccine approval is testing Germany’s patience
The Bundestag can’t be an easy place to be a politician right now. At the start of the pandemic, Germany…
Marilyn moment: is this the man who will replace Angela Merkel?
Is this the man who will replace Merkel?
The vaccine goalposts have shifted
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock provided a vaccine update this morning London time, reporting that the chances of the Oxford…
Germany’s far-right and the rise of the anti-corona protests
Germany has been in uproar over the events that unfolded this Saturday, when 38,000 protesters gathered in Berlin and clashed…
Trump’s troop move is a 21st-century strategy
Why should the United States prop up the defense of Germany, the richest country in Europe — and against Russia,…
Trump’s German troop withdrawal will hurt America
Tensions between Germany and the United States have increased considerably since Donald Trump became President. Trump has repeatedly criticized Berlin…
Can Germany spend its way out of the corona crisis?
Coronavirus is grim news for all major economies and Germany is no exception. The country’s economic output decreased by 2.2…
Germany’s flag burning ban is a threat to freedom of expression
Germany’s national parliament has made the public burning of the European Union flag and flags of foreign countries punishable by…
League of nations: the race out of lockdown
Lifting lockdown is a worldwide experiment
We know everything – and nothing – about Covid
There’s no such thing as ‘the science’ – but facts are emerging from the Covid fog
Could the Covid crisis be an economic opportunity for Brexit Britain?
Could the Covid crisis be an economic opportunity for Brexit Britain?
'You are endangering the world': German tabloid goes to war with China
Could China have done more to prevent the coronavirus pandemic? One tabloid editor in Germany certainly thinks so and an extraordinary…
The corona curtain-twitchers are watching
Welcome, then, to a country in which the police send drones to humiliate people taking a walk and dried pasta…
Isolation forces us to work out what really matters
In tough times, people often discover their dauntlessness
Northern lights: Seven steps for levelling up Britain
Seven steps for levelling up Britain
The agony of Brexit – for us Germans
We Germans have been in denial about Brexit
Germany’s ailing economy can’t afford a no-deal Brexit
The UK was the ‘sick man’ when we ‘joined Europe’ in 1973. Now, with Britain on the cusp of leaving,…
Germany’s military has become a complete joke
It is not hard to think of times when German military weakness would have been lauded as good news across…
A presidential pardon for my ‘miraculously shrinking crime’
I owe my return to these pages to the pardon I have received from the President of the United States.…
Trump told me I got a ‘bad rap’
I owe my return to these pages to the pardon I have received from the President of the United States.…
A clear vision of Walter Gropius the man is hard to come by
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) had the career that the 20th century inflicted on its architects. A master of the previous generation…
Europeans can’t understand the existential drive behind the British wish to leave the EU
What can the EU do to help the Britons out of their Brexit quagmire? Until very recently, the answer would…