Germany

A trans-Atlantic chasm has opened up on pandemic labor policy. We’ll soon know which side got it right.

Southern countries push for a eurobond while the wealthy North says “nein.”

Germans used to be happy they were far away from China, but as COVID-19 ravages Europe, they no longer feel safely removed.  

The world needs to cooperate to beat the coronavirus pandemic. That includes you, President Trump.

Over 24 hours, Trump, Macron, and Merkel each addressed their nations—and revealed their very different understandings of the world.

The lame-duck German chancellor has become a problem for the world. The frontrunner to take over will probably be even worse.

The French president’s recent speech is a sign that moderate leaders are waking up to the threat posed by political Islam.

His ascension to the highest intelligence post in the United States heightens fears that the Trump administration is politicizing intelligence.

Supply chain disruptions are upsetting markets globally, but especially in Asia.

The German chancellor’s most likely successor wants to end her way of doing politics.

The German chancellor’s anointed successor says she will no longer seek the country’s top position. Berlin now faces months of political uncertainty.

The chancellor’s pathological centrism has helped make her party morally blind.

Communism and democratic socialism won’t heal today’s political divisions. But social democracy—which helped ward off extremism following World War II—could.

The fiercest devotees of the far-right AfD aren’t native Germans but migrants from Russia.

A look at terms from India and El Salvador to South Korea and Ukraine.

Fragments of the wall have become museum pieces. But with the rise of extremist parties in Germany, the debate over the barrier’s legacy is anything but history.

Millennials on the left and right are getting tired of their country’s politics of centrism—and trouble in the governing coalition shows it.

Robert Habeck established himself outside major parties, has sweeping plans for Europe’s future—and is getting ever closer to taking power in Berlin.

Renewed defense spending by European states is in part a response to Russian aggression.