Germany’s lesson for Labour
Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders to mass migration has proved a gift to the far right.
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The far right’s triumph has left Germany in a mess
The firewalls that prevent the country’s centrist parties from governing with the radical right and left are cracking.
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Germany’s hard-right architecture
Conservatives are reconstructing their own imagined nation.
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Ukraine’s involvement in the Nord Stream plot complicates things
Germany’s support is wavering.
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Germany’s delusional China strategy
Berlin can’t shield German companies from the reality of geopolitics.
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Why I was banned from Germany
In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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The German SPD’s foolish attachment to Putin’s Russia
Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party refuses to abandon its nostalgic ties to Moscow – and is paying a heavy political price.
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Germany is on the brink of economic decline
Digital investment is being cut and industry is stuck in the past, in a country where the fax machine still…
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Austerity is coming for Europe
Heed Germany's lesson: when austerity bites, investment is the first thing to go.
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Germany and its discontents
Protests, purges and the crack-up of a nation.
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How Olaf Scholz lost Germany
German voters have come to distrust their chancellor – but that’s just the start of his problems.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s plan for peace
Why the left-wing politician wants to free Germany from Washington’s grip.
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Get ready for the worst
Germany’s political crisis is a warning for Keir Starmer.
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The Gessen affair and Germany’s ignorance about Jews
By criticising the journalist Masha Gessen, Germany misunderstands one of its greatest thinkers, Hannah Arendt.
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Germany’s new years of lead
The radical centre is paving the way for its own demise.
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Christmas in Hamburg
At the city’s festive markets shopping is not the objective: it is to meet friends and sip Glühwein.
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What it means to be German
Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.
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Clemens Meyer’s lessons from history
The author on growing up in the GDR, the rise of the far-right and Germany’s “responsibility” for the conflict in…
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left conservatism
Europe’s leaders are keenly watching the German breakaway party.
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