Europe 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 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… By Brian Melican
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. By Brian Melican