Germany
Germany’s border controls risk an EU rupture
On Sunday, Germany halted most travel for those moving between the country and its neighbouring Czech Republic and Austria. After the…
Pipe dreams
Russia’s influence on Germany is causing alarm
Ursula von der Leyen has always left a trail of disaster
The German Army had to join a NATO exercise with broomsticks because they didn’t have any rifles. It’s special forces…
Germany has just undermined the EU’s vaccine argument
Germany’s vaccine committee has advised the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine only be given to under-65s. The announcement marks a major twist in a…
Why a row about the rise of Hitler has erupted in the German press
A debate is playing out in the German-speaking media about whether inflation or deflation was behind the rise of Adolf…
Blessed be the fruit
Laura Freeman is transported by J.C. Volkamer’s astonishingly beautiful ode to the citrus
Can any country dodge the Covid bullet?
The government is yet again under fire for its handling of Covid-19, as cases rise across parts of the country.…
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…
Bavaria’s carnival king
Is this the man who will replace Merkel?
Barometer
Information overload The government’s plan to put ‘Covid wardens’ on the streets to enforce the new rule against more than…
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…
Breaking out
Lifting lockdown is a worldwide experiment
Cracking the code
There’s no such thing as ‘the science’ – but facts are emerging from the Covid fog
The shape of the future
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…
Lockdown’s a treat for curtain-twitchers
Welcome, then, to a country in which the police send drones to humiliate people taking a walk and dried pasta…
My grandfather, the hero
In tough times, people often discover their dauntlessness
Northern lights
Seven steps for levelling up Britain
The long goodbye
We Germans have been in denial about Brexit
