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Published in: HomeAll politics: swarm intelligence and subterranean politics in GermanyThe Pirate Party does not stand for certain policies, but for a new way of doing politics that challenges...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Towards Europia? Germany and the euro crisis
Europe is in the crucial weeks of its epic crisis. The judgment by Germany's constitutional court returns authority...
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Published in: HomeThe eurozone crisis and the Marshall Plan metaphor
Until the summer of 2012 I cannot find any use of the Marshall Plan as an analogy for understanding and resolving...
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Published in: HomeA Grimm fairytale: Anglo-Hanoverian union (1715-1837) and after
The historical links between Germany and Britain - aristocratic, political, industrial - are full of lost...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?German own goal: why Berlin’s sense of invulnerability will be its undoing
Without a mutualisation of risk, the euro will collapse, with devastating implications for German exports, the value...
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Published in: HomeGreece and the eurozone: managing the crisis
A Greek exit from the European single currency would not bring the catharsis that some expect. Rather, it will...
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Published in: HomeEuropean dis-Union: lessons of the Soviet collapse
Europe's crisis is being felt at multiple levels, from the future of the eurozone and divisions between...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Günter Grass, antisemitism and the inflation of evil
The Israel factor has politicised the business of assessing antisemitism such that the vitriolic disagreement...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Pretzel swastikas and Döner killings: are Germany’s best intentions becoming its fatal flaw?
The importance attached to maintaining the narrative of a tolerant Germany elides some uglier cultural symbolism -...
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Published in: HomeNew treaty or institutionalised hypocrisy?
Mrs Merkel and much of the German political establishment doggedly espouse the doctrine of ordoliberalism, despite...
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Published in: HomeEurope’s radical right: recognising and managing the ‘threat’
Safeguarding communities and nations from the potential threats of radical right narratives is not about controlling...
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Published in: HomeNeo-Nazi terror and Germany’s racism problem
A failed bank robbery on November 4 this year, exposed a cell in eastern Germany calling itself the “National...
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Published in: HomeEurope: after the endgame
The eurozone crisis reveals the exhaustion of the post-1945 model of Europe-building. This poses a historic...
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Published in: HomeTowards a Red-Green People’s Europe
The president of PASOK and of the Socialist International addressed the German Green party in an audience including...
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Published in: HomeSecurity and cooperation in the Middle East: searching for a solution
The lack of both security and cooperation is an enduring malady in the Middle East. Can global civil society apply...
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Published in: HomeAchtung, Dear Berliners: A Polish Answer to the German Question
Germany's elite: thankful but shocked at the truths and recommendations brought to them by the friendly but frank...
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Published in: HomeThe possibilities and impossibilities of being a neighbourGerman-born Daniel Zylbersztajn has recently returned to Poland, two months after his father's passing away. In the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReproduction of movement(s) without organisation: #UKUncut, #OWS, #OccupyMovement
A global day of collective action in 82 countries shook the world on October 15, 2011. Yet the protests were not...
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Published in: HomeGermany: the beleaguered European island
Many outward economic indicators still tell a story of German success. Inside, there are many signs of a troubled...
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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: when Europe went right it went wrong
The turn into a neoliberal direction of European integration is at the root of the present crisis. In the search to...
