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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new German government: but what about that new German politics for Europe?After months of campaigning, leading to an election, followed by weeks of negotiation, the German Social Democrats...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise of the German monsterMerkel’s next grand coalition risks fuelling German right-wing populism like never before.
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Published in: openSecuritySchwarzwohnen: The spatial politics of squatting in East BerlinEast Berlin's squatter movement erupted across the city after the fall of the wall in 1989. But what role did...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?German-Russian business cooperation: what consequences for eastern Europe?Germany's trade policies towards Russia, notably on the issue of natural gas, have contributed to re-shaping the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Black-Red, Black-Green? German party coalitions and the new left majorityAngela Merkel might have won the last German elections, but she now needs a new coalition partner. So who will it...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The German Election: what does it mean for Europe?As predicted, Sunday’s German federal election resulted in a resounding victory for Angela Merkel. But with growing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The chancellor of Europe, re-electedStrengthened by a clear victory in the ballots, Angela Merkel is unlikely to change her austerity course. In the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who says the German election is dull?Barbie, Mutti Merkel and a monstrous personality cult: a campaign diary ahead of the 22 September German election.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Merkel is a pragmatic European” – an interview with the BBC's Jon SopelOn 22 September, Germans will go to the polls and decide over the future course of their country and, perhaps,...
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Published in: TransformationBerlin’s ‘system error’ free shop
No money or goods exchanged, just take what you want.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?German election: don't forget the Turkish vote(s)!There are about 3 million German Turks living in Germany. Where does the country's largest immigrant group stand in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Introducing Spotlight on Germany
Our new Spotlight on series tackles a major question: is Germany boring?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The German election: what Europe expects - and what Germany will not doEuropeans expect a lot from Germany. But that doesn't necessarily mean European matters will have an impact on the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Germany's election campaign: Terminally, terminally boringThe German election campaign lacks vision and fresh ideas. This is no accident. It’s the tactical brilliance of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A very German myth: feral boys and the conflict between civilization and cultureIn the internal exile in which Romanticism has languished in post-war Germany, encounters with feral boys (even...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Proud to be German? Football and the fear of nationalismThough some fans are enthusiastic, even proud of today's multi-ethnic, multi-racial German football teams, taking...
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Published in: openEconomyIs Germany paying for southern Europe?
Germany is not paying for southern Europe. On the contrary, it benefits from it.
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Published in: HomeFranco-German cooperation: productive tensionThe quest for solutions to the Eurozone crisis has been interspersed by Franco-German controversies. But national...
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Published in: HomeDiscouraging developments in the German news media marketThe German print media is going through a rough phase, with many newspapers closing and journalists laid off as a...
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Published in: Home'My Turkey': Berlin, immigration and the amateur football sceneBerlin's Turkish football clubs tell the tale of a local struggle for multiculturalism and integration, far away...
