Close-Up: Robert Habeck
- 27th February 2019,
In a political landscape beset by fragmentation, Germanyʼs Greens are going from strength to strength. Their..
Conservative at Heart
- 3rd January 2019,
New CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has often been called an “Angela Merkel 2.0”. In fact, AKK..
Friedrich Merz: Germany’s Next Chancellor?
- 30th November 2018,
At a key party conference in early December, Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party is poised to..
Angela Merkel’s rival Friedrich Merz and the vast, shadowy power of BlackRock
- 29th November 2018,
The sheer scale of BlackRock’s finances makes its influence on the world unlike that of any..
Is Germany’s media to blame for the inexorable rise of the AfD?
- 14th November 2018,
The way journalists do business with politicians – being spoonfed – is a cosy arrangement that
Flying High on Pessimism
- 30th October 2018,
The far-right AfD has gained ever more popularity since its breakthrough in 2017. The party’s rise..
Crossing Germany’s divide — encounters with far-right protesters
- 15th September 2018,
DW reporter Ben Knight covered the recent right-wing demos in Chemnitz and Köthen, and had many..
Violence in Chemnitz as leftist and far-right protesters clash
- 27th August 2018,
Neo-Nazis and leftist protesters took to the streets of Germany’s Chemnitz after a murder involving migrants...
MPs from Angela Merkel’s CDU have been accused of taking bribes from the German gunmaker Heckler..
How a German gunmaker became one of the world’s deadliest
- 14th May 2018,
Heckler & Koch’s trial over an illegal deal with Mexico is about to begin in Stuttgart...