German Chancellor Angela Merkel has presided over her country’s politics for almost fifteen years after winning the 2005 election. Her chancellorship has been dominated by the 2008 financial crisis, the eurozone crisis, Trump’s tariffs and Brexit. Often hailed as the...
Germany’s Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer travelled to Turkey and pledged his continued support for Turkey to reorganise the refugee pact between the European Union and Turkey. The agreement of spring 2016 grants Greece the ability to send illegally...
As Angela Merkel’s tenure as Germany’s Chancellor ends, many journalists and historians will rush to write about her legacy. Politico’s Matthew Karnitschnig recently produced a piece on how Donald Trump is not entirely to blame for the German-American ‘affair’ ending....
Germany has been facing a steady idiosyncrasy between theory and practice of deportations. In 2018 every second deportation failed, leading to only 26.000 enforced deportations for the whole year. This trend has continued into 2019. From January till June, the...
The elections in Saxony and Brandenburg were the latest success stories of Germany’s far-right party, the AfD. And the question amongst politicians remains: how to deal with this phenomenon, that seemingly overcomes a long-standing law in German politics: there is...
The states of Saxony and Brandenburg have voted. And while the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) appear to display an ill-advised form of relief, both are left with a big ask: to find stable coalitions and...
World leaders at the G7 Summit in Biarritz last week focused on a wide range of issues, but the most controversial one might have been climate change. While matters such as Brexit, Iran’s nuclear program, and the US vs China...
On a daily basis, in economic and financial press releases, the spread between Italian bonds (BTPs) and German Bunds is duly reported as the key benchmark for understanding how reliable Italy’s economic policy is. Current reports state that an increase...
This Sunday, the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg are due to elect their respective parliaments for the next five years. It is a landmark election with implications for the rest of the republic, and particularly the grand coalition in...
The Trump administration has renewed its calls for NATO allies to spend more of their GDP on the military alliance. US President Donald Trump has often bashed its allies for what he believes is a situation that amounts to them...
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