Germany’s tradition of Ostpolitik seems to make it an ideal mediator in the Crimean crisis, but..
Germany’s newest party, the euroskeptic Alternative für Deutschland, is routinely dismissed as the German Tea Party...
A German museum dedicated to much-loved Wild West adventure author Karl May has gotten caught in..
Oberndorf: The town that armed the world
- 25th February 2014,
Millions of Heckler & Koch guns are used around the globe – from South America to..
Khodorkovsky greeted by German hospitality and gingerbread
- 22nd December 2013,
After 10 years in a Russian gulag, Mikhail Khodorkovsky tells of the ‘unbelievable feeling of freedom’..
Hans-Christian Ströbele’s trip to Moscow to see Edward Snowden may have been a typically maverick move..
Merkel’s ‘Mutti System’ and German democracy
- 20th September 2013,
Psychoanalysts have always had fun with Angela Merkel. But in this election campaign, critics say the..
Ohne Froggies und Krauts – Drinking with a UKIP MEP
- 20th June 2013,
Franzosen? Deutsche? No, thanks: Die United Kingdom Independence Party will, dass England aus der EU austritt..
Even after the UN presented a damning verdict on Thilo Sarrazin and the government’s failure to..
The postponement of the neo-Nazi terror trial in Munich is just the latest stage in an..