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Höcke or Hitler?
A television experiment reveals how close Germany’s right-wing AfD has moved to Nazi language. © REUTERS/Michaela Rehle Are today’s right-wing populists in Germany using the same language as Adolf...
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The Winds of Change
Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall our contributor Bettina Vestring spent two years reporting from the East German city of Dresden. She recalls the sights, the smells, the revelations about...
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A Big Step Away from German Orthodoxy
Isabel Schnabel, Germany’s nominee to the ECB board, has a pragmatic approach to monetary and fiscal policy. Her appointment may well signal a coming German change of view regarding the wisdom of...
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The One Trillion Euro Idea
Austrian economists are proposing a European Silk Road. They also say how the EU could finance such an enormous new infrastructure project: by being unorthodox. © REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch It’s a...
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Chronicle of an End Foretold
SPD members have elected a new leadership: two unknown left-wingers. It is hard to see Angela Merkel’s coalition surviving. © REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch On Saturday morning, Chancellor Angela Merkel...
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The Berlin Malaise
Germany’s capital is astonishingly short on politicians with a nation-wide appeal. Here’s why. © REUTERS/Annegret Hilse France had Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris for 18 years before becoming...
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Brace for Change in Germany
Angela Merkel’s chosen successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has thrown in the towel. Expect fierce leadership and policy struggles. © REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke Here are three takeaways from the...
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The Führer and the Prince
How much did Wilhelm of Prussia, son of Germany’s last emperor, help Adolf Hitler in his rise to power? Historical truth is at stake. So are millions of euros. © REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch On March 21,...
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Pride and Hope: The CureVac Story
Germans are outraged that US President Donald Trump may have tried to poach a German company’s research on a coronavirus vaccine. It’s a perfect narrative for a country deep in crisis. ©...
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Merkel’s Red Twin
Olaf Scholz is the SPD’s best—and only—hope for the chancellery. In terms of politics and character, he is a close Merkel look-alike. But neither time nor the numbers are on his side, and his early...
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