The Globalist

If Germany’s CDU had used an executive search firm to find a successor for Angela Merkel as Chancellor, it would have probably come up with an intriguing proposition.

Reflections on the need to guard against the false prophets of making hay out of the current situation by effectively doing China’s bidding inside Europe, especially inside Germany.

Trauma and historical memory in Germany and Indonesia.

In a curious twist of history, Baerbock holds the promise to execute on what turned out to be Angela Merkel’s highly misleading self-advertising.

Could Magnitsky-style social media campaigns challenge authoritarians like Putin and Xi?

Germany’s long-term leading government party faces an uncertain political future.

Prominent Nazis were interrogated after the end of World War II in a U.S. prison codenamed “Ashcan” south of Luxembourg. From there they were sent to the war crimes trial in Nuremberg.

North Stream 2: Is the gas pipeline’s completion really mandated by history, as the German President has claimed?

Why do we Germans learn so little from very relevant Asian countries in fighting the pandemic?

As much as the current German government would wish otherwise, the North Stream 2 pipeline controversy continues to threaten European unity as well as transatlantic solidarity.