Leadership lessons: The Greece deal fallout
To lead the EU may seem like a burden; it is, in truth, an historic opportunity
Note from Berlin
Greece and Germany’s game of chicken
Despite staving off Greek disaster for now, Merkel and Schäuble have had a frosty reception from political allies in Berlin.
The ultimate test for Merkel’s ‘muddle through’ model
Merkel has shown little appetite for the “vision-thing”, but the Greek crisis threatens to push the Chancellor out of her comfort zone
Berlin and the Minsk trap
Almost five months on since Minsk II was agreed, it is clear that none of the early conditions have been met
Idealpolitik or Realpolitik: Germany’s new old foreign policy debate
Germany’s obsessive debate between a value-based and an interest-based foreign policy has returned
War and peace in Berlin’s minds: threat inflation and denial in Germany
Why do Germans so strongly oppose military intervention in defence of NATO?
G7 summitry – reborn but still the same
Myths and symbolism have accompagnied the fundamental transformation of the gathering
How Riga was perceived in Berlin
Many in Eastern Europe viewed the Riga Summit as a disappointment, but what did Germany make of it?
Europe’s soft political revolution is Germany’s nightmare
If the relationship German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU President Donald Tusk have built won’t last, a pillar of Germany’s architecture for the EU will crumble
The politics of history: how the perception of WW II shapes political debates on Eastern Europe
Peace in Europe can be based only on equal rights to social, political, and economic development for all