by Leopold Traugott *
Recently, Martin Schulz travelled to Turkey for the first time since the country’s failed coup in July. One of the main talking points on the agenda was the continuation of the…
by Juraj Mesík
The gas pipeline Nord Stream II should double the existing natural gas transport capacity from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. Juraj Mesík explains why the Kremlin will be the biggest winner of…
by JAN TECHAU
For people outside Germany, the country’s pains at growing up as a foreign policy power often look wondrous and slightly bizarre—so morally charged is every debate, so infused with self-doubt, and often so…
by Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza & Markus Heinrich
Clichés like “don’t mention the war” have given way to modern Germany becoming an unlikely moral example to the world.
For German-Turkish relations, the recent vote…
by O. Krumme Garcia
A bit more than two weeks ago, the German Parliament has approved, by a big majority, to deploy army troops and fighter jets for reconnaissance flights to Syria, to fight alongside…
by Nasim Ahmed
I was probably not alone in wanting to be surprised by British Prime Minister David Cameron as he made the case for air strikes against Daesh/ISIS in Syria to a packed parliament on…
by Matthias Bauer
The rise of populist parties across Europe is a severe threat to European integration. Irrespective of their underlying political ideologies, populist parties mainly benefit from widespread EU scepticism among their national constituencies. At…
by O. Krumme Garcia
For months, refugees desperately try to enter Europe, escaping from violence in their home countries to find safety in Europe. For months, some EU member states do everything possible to…
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by Alexandre Barray
As many European countries are facing increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers, tensions are increasing in Europe. The European Commission revealed in a public opinion analysis released in July…
by O. Krumme-Garcia
These days, Europe only had two main subjects: on the one hand, the never ending Greek crisis, which has dominated the entire media coverage for the past weeks and months. On the…