List of Germany articles
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Armin Laschet, North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier and state chairman of the CDU, speaks in a studio in Cologne, Germany, on Jan. 9, 2021. Is Armin Laschet Too Gemütlich?
Angela Merkel’s most likely successor is promising continuity with her style of politics—but that may not be up to him.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel confers with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (not shown) prior to the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin on Jan. 6. As Merkel Prepares to Step Down, the Future of German Conservatism Is Open
The three men standing to take over as chair of the CDU will take the party in strikingly different directions.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, along with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel, who were both tuning in via video link from Brussels, during a video linked meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the coronavirus pandemic on September 14, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. What Merkel Really Thinks About China—and the World
Europe’s year-end investment deal with Beijing is a clear window into the German chancellor’s foreign-policy worldview.
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A mock offer of "Novichok Tea" is seen in front of an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin outside the Russian embassy in Berlin during a protest on September 23, 2020. (Odd Anderson/AFP/ Getty Images) Bellingcat Can Say What U.S. Intelligence Can’t
Open-source investigations enable officials and lawmakers to discuss Russian skullduggery without exposing sources and methods of U.S. intelligence
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A Yemeni boy walks past a mural depicting a U.S. drone on Dec. 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. Germany Could Have Delivered Justice for Civilian Drone Strike Victims. It Failed.
Missiles remotely fired with the assistance of a U.S. base on German soil killed my family in Yemen, but neither German nor U.S. courts are willing to hold anyone accountable.
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Assistants await patients at a check-in counter for vaccinations against COVID-19 at the converted Merkur-Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany on Dec. 1. Where Do Things Stand With the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout?
The U.K.’s quick approval of the Pfizer vaccine means some Britons will get shots starting next week—but in the rest of the world, it’s going to take a while for regular people to get inoculated.
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden The World Calls Biden, While Trump and Company Double Down
Major world leaders are reaching out to the U.S. president-elect as Pompeo claims there will be a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2017. The Last Throes of Trump’s Wounded Alpha-Male Ego
What Angela Merkel’s approach to a blustering incumbent can teach us about America’s political crisis today.
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A partially-masked man walks in Pfarrkirchen, a town in Bavaria, on Oct. 27 after a local lockdown was imposed. They Conquered COVID-19. Now They’re Struggling.
From the Czech Republic and Germany to the Indian state of Kerala, governments that dealt decisively with the first wave of the coronavirus are drowning in the second wave.
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Filippo Grandi, the commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, at an IDP camp Our Top Weekend Reads
The U.N.’s diversity problem, why Americans are giving up on democracy, and Germany’s successful—yet broken—integration experiment.
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Christina Kampmann, then-family minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, speaks with two children from Syria in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Oct. 26, 2015. Inside Germany’s Successful and Broken Integration Experiment
Five years after the arrival of more than a million refugees, one city in western Germany is emblematic of all that’s gone right—and wrong.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech during a press conference at the end of a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Sept. 6, 2019. Merkel’s China Reset Is Mostly Hollow
Washington shouldn’t expect—and may not need—a coordinated policy with Berlin.
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A sculpture of a heart in the colors of the German flag reads “30 years” as part of an outdoor exhibition marking the upcoming 30th anniversary of German reunification in Potsdam on Sept. 17. Gorbachev Was Right About German Reunification
Thatcher and Mitterrand nearly stopped it from happening, but 30 years on, reunification remains the world’s most successful geopolitical experiment.
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Querdenker, or “lateral thinker,” is written on the sign of a participant at a march against Germany’s COVID-19 measures across the Oberkassel Bridge in Düsseldorf on Sept. 20. Germany’s Lateral Thinkers, Unite
The Querdenker protests against coronavirus prevention measures sweeping the country’s cities show that free speech is alive and well.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is shown during a video meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Berlin on Sept. 14. China Is Merkel’s Biggest Failure in Office
The German chancellor has put future deals over moral values, but she’s not alone.
