Germany
Germany’s federal election: choose any colour you like
Pizza, kiwi, traffic light, Jamaica, Kenya or Germany?
This curious spectrum of possibilities currently tantalises and torments German minds. Based on the trademark colours of…
Merkel and beyond
She was wading through debris left by catastrophic floods in the west of Germany. Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel had, last week, come to assess the damage and promise help to…
Believing Biden
At the conclusion of US President Joe Biden’s one-week visit across the continent and to the United Kingdom, Europeans appear to believe in the need to push back against the…
Podcasts
The Director’s Chair: Dr Constanze Stelzenmüller on Angela Merkel’s life, career and legacy.
In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with the Brookings Institution scholar and Merkel-watcher Dr Constanze Stelzenmüller. Constanze holds the Fritz…
Nord Stream 2: Assessing Russia’s “serious geopolitical victory”
Europe doesn’t appear likely to reduce its dependency on Russian energy any time soon. The much-discussed, much-debated construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline…
Russia vs the EU
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell visited Moscow this month intending to lodge a strong protest against the treatment of dissident Alexei…
Germany’s ordinary new world
In extraordinary times, ordinariness can be a virtue. That, in any case, is the hope of Armin Laschet, who was elected as the new leader of Germany’s largest party, the Christian…
The outlines of a European policy on the Indo-Pacific
The Netherlands recently published its first official strategy paper for the Indo-Pacific, just ten weeks after Germany had brought out its own. The two countries are now part of…
With Syrian prosecutions, a rare case of universal jurisdiction
With so much else going awry in the world, it’s perhaps easy to forget that the Syrian civil war is rolling on into its tenth year. Scholars and policymakers have long been…
A Thuringian eruption in Germany
Few know it, but Erfurt is one of Germany’s most beautiful cities. Packed with meandering narrow streets lined by half-timbered houses and overlooked by a soaring gothic cathedral…