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The making of a Hanseat: What Hamburg reveals about Olaf Scholz

How seven years leading Germany’s second city shaped the front runner to succeed Angela Merkel.

By Brian Melican

The making of a Hanseat: What Hamburg reveals about Olaf Scholz

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The renewed relevance of the Schleswig-Holstein question

Europe has always had regions in which cultural and political spheres overlap, and finding lasting solutions for them has…

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A tale of three cities: the places transformed by pandemics across history

Marseille in 1720, Hamburg in 1892 and the Swedish city of Östersund in 1918 were all indelibly shaped by diseases.

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