Germany

PiS won by offering provincial voters social benefits that transformed their lives. If Poland’s opposition wants to defeat the illiberal ruling party, it will have to offer an alternative welfare state model.

The new pipeline won’t deliver energy security. It will make the EU more dependent on a capricious Russia.

The far-right is associated with the disaffected masses—but has a growing intellectual class.

Feeling guilty for the carbon burned on your last flight? The Germans have a word for that.

New sanctions from the United States risk pushing Berlin firmly into Moscow’s geopolitical corner.

To pull its weight, it needs to start seeing itself as a normal country, subject to the same pressures as all its neighbors.

Arrests in Hong Kong, a proroguing prime minister, and criticism of World Bank funding in Xinjiang.

Eastern Germans increasingly claim to have freed themselves from communists, only to have been taken over by another dictatorship: western Germany.

Extremists will triumph in this weekend’s regional elections—and Angela Merkel’s party is starting to see their appeal.

Europe’s biggest economy could easily stop its own slide into long-term stagnation—but it would prefer not to.

Future dependency on Israeli natural gas could change the political equation for many European countries that are currently critical of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.

The Fed chairman confirms that uncertainty over trade is slowing the global economy and no one knows quite what to do about it.

The most efficient way of spreading renewable energy? Getting local communities involved.

Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo have made it clear that the United States is no longer committed to protecting Europe. The need for a viable pan-European defense force has never been greater.

Opposing the compromise candidate for EU commission president will further empower populists and Euroskeptics.

Germans welcomed an unprecedented number of Middle Easterners into their country—but not always into their workplaces.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is in line to take over as German chancellor—but there’s no telling if she’ll survive long enough to get the job.