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Germany
Correspondents
Enemies of the people
Klaus Neumann
15 December 2020
A sharp rise in Covid-19 cases shows how a small minority is exercising outsized influence in Germany
Correspondents
Cancelling Bismarck
Klaus Neumann
18 November 2020
Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene”
Correspondents
Tipping points
Klaus Neumann
12 May 2020
Germany’s anti-lockdown protests aren’t only about the coronavirus
Correspondents
Anatomy of a broken taboo
Klaus Neumann
19 February 2020
An election in a tiny East German state has reverberated all the way to the top of the country’s politics
Correspondents
How Australia’s love affair with coal looks from afar, and why it matters
Klaus Neumann
4 February 2020
Europeans have been watching Australia’s bushfires and climate change policies with growing dismay
Correspondents
The significance of 1 September
Klaus Neumann
2 September 2019
A closely watched election campaign unfolds in an East German state
Correspondents
The remarkable deeds of Captain Rackete
Klaus Neumann
12 July 2019
Has Italy’s far-right interior minister met his match in this young woman with an astonishing impact?
Correspondents
The fall and rise of German angst
Klaus Neumann
16 April 2019
A decade ago, that distinctive national mood seemed to have died out. And then came the rise of far-right populism
Correspondents
Past meets present in a Berlin refugee camp
Tom Bamforth
14 November 2018
A visit to a refugee camp in a conservative district of Berlin reveals successful efforts to understand and accommodate
Correspondents
“I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose”
Klaus Neumann
12 August 2018
Why did Mesut Özil, one of the most talented footballers of his generation, decide to quit playing for his home country?
Books & Arts
Hell or high waters
Glenn Nicholls
7 April 2018
Books
| A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany
International
Cautionary tales from the birthplace of bureaucracy
Paul ’t Hart
12 March 2018
Even in modern Germany, government maladministration can have tragic effects
International
The Germany of 2017
Klaus Neumann
22 December 2017
As the shape of the new government becomes clearer, Germany’s longest-running police show illuminates the political challenge ahead
Essays & Reportage
Historians’ disgrace?
Mathew Turner
14 November 2017
Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case?
Correspondents
The stamina of Angela Merkel
Klaus Neumann
12 September 2017
A sedate contest between the major parties contrasts with the passion evoked on the far right
International
Up against Angela Merkel, a Social Democrat wants to talk about refugees
Klaus Neumann
25 July 2017
The debate of 2015 is being revived by a candidate for chancellor in September’s election
Books & Arts
Trading on the moral high ground
Jane Goodall
1 March 2017
Television
| Two very different political cultures, and some intriguing similarities, are the backdrops to
Deutschland 83
and
Billions
International
Germany, one year on
Klaus Neumann
12 September 2016
The events of late summer 2015 revealed faultlines in German society that won’t quickly resolve themselves, writes
Klaus Neumann.
Meanwhile, Angela Merkel’s…
National Affairs
Worlds apart
Klaus Neumann
29 July 2016
The leaders of Australia and Germany responded differently to recent terrorist attacks.
Klaus Neumann
looks at why
Books & Arts
Schwarzkopf and the Nazis
Andrew Ford
5 July 2016
Music
| How do we reconcile an artist’s views with her work, asks
Andrew Ford
International
Dealing with Mr Erdogan
Klaus Neumann
21 March 2016
The agreement hammered out in Brussels on Friday creates fresh uncertainty and renewed danger for refugees, writes
Klaus Neumann
International
Angela Merkel’s line in the sand
Klaus Neumann
9 March 2016
Despite state elections this weekend, the German chancellor is sticking to her pledge to run a “rational” refugee policy, writes
Klaus Neumann
. Meanwhile,…
Correspondents
Is Germany able to do this?
Klaus Neumann
29 October 2015
In the third of a series of articles about Germany’s response to the refugee crisis,
Klaus Neumann
reports from the German–Austrian border
Correspondents
Germany divided
Klaus Neumann
27 October 2015
Twenty-five years after reunification, the mass arrival of refugees in recent weeks has exposed old and new fault lines, writes
Klaus Neumann
Correspondents
Merkel’s high-stakes stand
Klaus Neumann
19 October 2015
German chancellor Angela Merkel has shaken off a reputation for indecisiveness, writes
Klaus Neumann
. But can she hold the line on asylum seekers as circumstances change?
Correspondents
Europe’s, and Britain’s, migration fix
David Hayes
8 September 2015
An influx of neighbours is testing Europe’s unity and values, and Britain’s instinct for semi-detachment, writes
David Hayes
in London
International
Stepping up to the plate
Klaus Neumann
7 September 2015
A line by Angela Merkel helps us understand the extraordinary welcome being given to displaced people in Germany, writes
Klaus Neumann
Books & Arts
Innocent abroad
Susan Lever
31 August 2015
Books
|
Susan Lever
reviews Gail Jones’s
A Guide to Berlin
International
The damage (to Greece, Europe and Germany) and how to undo it
Klaus Neumann
16 July 2015
Although this week’s agreement has kept Greece in the eurozone, its impact will be dire, writes
Klaus Neumann
. But alternatives still remain
Essays & Reportage
Debts and other legacies
Klaus Neumann
20 April 2015
Greece wants war reparations and loan repayments from Germany, writes
Klaus Neumann
. The idea isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound
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