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Nov 21, 2025
US Ambassador to Nato Matthew Whitaker dropped quite the bombshell at the Berlin security conference earlier this week.
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Nov 12, 2025
German Left-winger Sahra Wagenknecht is stepping down as chair of the BSW, a party named after her and founded only last year.
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Sep 29, 2025
Germany is a tense country these days. Conversations with friends and relatives there invariably turn to politics, and, when they do, things can get heated very quickly.
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Jul 24, 2025
“Bienvenue à Berlin,” said a smiling Friedrich Merz as he greeted Emmanuel Macron last night in the German capital. A firm handshake and a hearty hug...
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Jul 19, 2025
Today was “a historic day for German-British relations”, Friedrich Merz said after his first visit to the UK as German Chancellor. That’s no...
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Jul 8, 2025
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz once had a reputation as a fiscal conservative. Once he was elected this year, though, he discovered that many things in the country need fixing,...
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Apr 12, 2025
It took just over six weeks for the new German coalition to form. That is very quick: in the past it has often taken months for parties to come to an agreement after elections. So...
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Apr 10, 2025
German coalition talks normally drag on for months, as parties with increasingly divergent views try to hammer out ways of working together. By contrast, the new German government...
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Apr 2, 2025
Well, that didn’t take long. Peace negotiations over an end to the war in Ukraine are barely underway, and senior German politicians are already calling for their...
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Mar 13, 2025
“The Left is gone,” declared Friedrich Merz just before the German election. Confident of victory for his centre-right CDU/CSU, the likely next chancellor...
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Feb 19, 2025
When European leaders discussed their response to US-Russian negotiations about ending the war in Ukraine, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz felt ‘a little irritated’....
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Jan 31, 2025
Ahead of the German elections on 23 February, much has been said and written about the rise of the German Right. Combined, the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the...
