The Globalist

Germany at a crossroad of domestic and foreign policy change.

Why Germany will not expend too much energy on a favorable deal for the UK if it quits the EU.

How the Chinese leadership manages to cottonball sensitive state visits.

Will the German Chancellor rely on a 1965 blues rock hit by The Animals to explain her course reversal on refugees?

Europe has to tread carefully as Turkey itself is in a precarious situation.

Reflections on Merkel’s curious mixture of profound ethics paired with high-handedness and naiveté.

How much do Germans work and how well are they compensated for that work?

In the spirit of European cohesion, France will force Germany to change its refugee policy.

Seizing America’s “future preference” and having grown up behind the “Iron Curtain” help explain Merkel’s approach to the refugee crisis.

How to get one’s mind around the massive wave of haphazard immigration into Germany?