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Published in: Home: OpinionClimate activists have transformed German politicsThis is Merkel’s last chance to show she’s the climate chancellor. But her record isn’t good enough
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionAngela Merkel’s departure is an opportunity to fix the EUAs the four-term chancellor leaves the European stage, strict fiscal rules can finally be abandoned in favour of...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDespite all the international attention, Afghan refugees are not welcomeNobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisWhy at-risk Afghans have a right of admission to EU member statesThe protection of Afghans should not be limited to those directly employed by European governments
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEurope’s flooding shows why the green transition must be driven by people-powerIt’s time to stop viewing people as victims of environmental breakdown, and start viewing them as an essential part...
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Published in: Global Extremes: AnalysisWhy are Christians in Germany more immune to far-Right populism than in the US?On opposite sides of the Atlantic, Christian communities are reacting very differently to the messages of right-wing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionA double standard lies behind German criticism of pro-Palestinian demonstratorsIncidents of antisemitism, wherever they occur, are shocking and wrong. But anti-Jewish hatred was not imported to...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisTransatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemicHow the far-Right group in Germany went to Canada and took advantage of COVID-19 to further its anti-Islam,...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhy Germany gets it wrong about antisemitism and PalestineFears about antisemitism are understandable, given German history – but in fact, it’s the unquestioning support for...
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Published in: Home: FeatureHow Germany became ground zero for the COVID infodemicExclusive analysis by openDemocracy reveals how false claims and conspiracy theories gave rise to Europe’s largest...
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Published in: Home: NewsGermany’s COVID sceptics fuelled by Russian media and far-Right conspiraciesExclusive: Disinformation and pseudoscience shared on social media inspired tens of thousands to attend...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEuropean far-Right populism and ISIS: Two sides of the same coin?From the populist rhetoric of Germany's far-Right AfD to ISIS’s extremist religious ideology, polarizing discourse...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionHow the German far Right appropriates ideals of non-violent resistanceThe far Right’s claims to be ‘peaceful Europeans’ are absurd, especially in the light of increasingly violent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe poverty of mainstream universalism and exclusive identity politicsThose criticizing exclusive leftist and liberal varieties of identity politics that endanger plurality of opinion...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Central Alps: The convenient erasure of historyA Second World War bunker in northern Italy has just been demolished despite its importance as a reminder of the...
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Published in: Home: FeatureOne year after the Hanau massacre, victims’ families fight for justiceAlthough it was eclipsed by the pandemic, last February’s mass shooting revealed Germany’s failure to confront the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIs Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?The German party though internally divided about the measures, is united on anti-EU ideology to gain electoral support.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIn Germany, antisemitism on social media can be linked to offline violenceNot enough is being done in Germany to combat antisemitism on social media platforms.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Love letter from BuchenwaldWhat can the world learn from Buchenwald's audio memorial walk to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marathon Man and 'our European Way of Life'The migration debate ignores the political question of why hundreds or thousands of underage and adult people are...
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