Lisa Haseldine

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  • Dec 4, 2025
    Steve Witkoff’s sixth visit of the year to Moscow seems to have ended again with very little to show for it. The US special envoy was in the Russian capital with Jared Kushner,...
  • Jun 9, 2025
    Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz seems serious about his pledge to make the Bundeswehr the ‘strongest conventional army in Europe’. Yet less than a...
  • Feb 14, 2025
    For all the alarm about the instability of German politics, the results of this month’s federal election campaign seem – on the surface – largely baked in. The...
  • Feb 10, 2025
    “The firewall has fallen!” Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), posted on X, barely able to contain her excitement. The...