If Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, was going to make a comeback, it had to be in the German capital.
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How Angela Merkel Became the Last Best Hope for European Liberalism
The influx of refugees isn’t a “German problem.” It is the deepest crisis in the EU’s existence — and a fight for the liberal values that define it.
Germany: Reunited for 25 Years and It Doesn’t Always Feel So Good
Today’s dividing lines are between Germans who have accepted the reality of globalization and those who deny it by shrouding themselves in nationalism.
Why It’s So Hard for Germany to Lead on the Migrant Crisis – or Anything Else
In Germany, even the semantics of the word “to lead” — fuehren — are loaded because of associations with Adolf Hitler.
A European Disaster
A refugee crisis is exposing the cracks in a continent that was supposedly whole and free.
Germany’s Assumptions About Peace and Power Are Out of Sync With Reality
Before the fighting broke out in Ukraine, Germany behaved like a big Switzerland, with no obvious interests abroad apart from developing new markets for its exports.
Moscow Uses Tanks, Berlin Words in World War II Commemorations
In an irony of history, Germany is now the one country that has the moral authority to bridge the contradictions in remembering World War II.
How Vladimir Putin’s Skewed View of World War II Threatens his Neighbors and the West
Remembering the Great Victory is more than an instrument to consolidate Russians. It has also become a way to prepare people for war.
Germany’s Anti-Immigrant PEGIDA Isn’t a Vladimir Putin Plot. It’s Scarier.
What’s most striking about the movement is not the radicalism, but the ordinariness, of the people it attracts.
Inside the New Anti-Muslim Group Gaining Strength in Germany
“I don’t have anything against Christians or Buddhists or Jews,” Kathrin Oertel said. “They don’t demand I observe certain rules so as not to offend them.”
