From 2016 Ukraine will serve the Security Council for two years. Ukraine sees this as an opportunity to bring back the world's focus on the crisis in its own country. Yet, Richard Gowan says, dynamics of the Council will barely change.
The debate on how to deal with refugees in Germany splits the governing party frim Angela Merkel, CDU. In the centre is the issue of identity within this crisis. The question remains if the crisis pushes this aspect to the centre of German public debate. Josef Janning adds that people are afraif to ask who is 'a German'.
