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EUSC? OK!
How can the EU quickly and effectively take decisions on issues of international security? There’s only one workable option: bring the heads of government …
The Big Handover
All wealth in Russia is first generation—and that generation is getting old. How can the regime ensure continuity for the future? The Kremlin has …
The Führer and the Prince
How much did Wilhelm of Prussia, son of Germany’s last emperor, help Adolf Hitler in his rise to power?
Rethinking Germany’s Sahel Policy
Germany needs to change its approach to the Sahel region and that includes rethinking its assumptions, being more flexible and standing up for itself when it comes to its international partners.
Sylke Tempel Fellowships: Call for Applications
Young media professionals in Germany and Israel, apply!
Brace for Change in Germany
Angela Merkel’s chosen successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has thrown in the towel. Expect fierce leadership and policy struggles.
“The EU Is Not Big Enough to Shift the World”
The economist MARTIN WOLF thinks Europe has no chance of gaining real strategic autonomy.
For the EU, the Sun Also Rises
An EU free from British membership will mean new challenges, but also new opportunities.
Pariscope: Libya, a Case Study in Missteps
Libya is a perfect case study for the shortcomings of Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy initiatives.
Has EU Reform Ended Before It Began?
Emmanuel Macron’s big idea for an EU constitutional convention may be watered down by Ursula von der Leyen into a sideshow that could then be ignored. The European Parliament, however, wants it to achieve real reform.
Germany’s Inadequate Culture of Remembrance
75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Germany needs to rethink how it remembers—and why it does.
The Berlin Malaise
Germany’s capital is astonishingly short on politicians with a nation-wide appeal.
Fear of the Middle Kingdom in Central Asia
Governments like to talk up the cooperation between China and Central Asian states. But the Sinophobia in Kyrgystan and Kazahkstan is very real. “They …
Always the Bystander
Europe has been left as a spectator in the US-Iran conflict as the EU half-heartedly tries to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.
Editorial: A World of Frenemies
It was the strongly anti-Communist US columnist and gossip writer Walter Winchell who first coined the term in print in 1953. “Howz [sic] About …
The Dangers of Herd Life
In the digital age, ideas of human nature posited by the European Enlightenment are confronted with a Chinese model in which the state uses …
