Berlin and German Politics

Germany goes to the polls this Sunday, 24 September 2017. What does the campaign tell us about the EU’s largest

  BERLIN: 20 DEC 2016 (11am). The driver of the truck that killed at least 12 people, and wounded scores more, in

26 MAY 16. Yesterday, Germany unveiled new proposed legislation for integrating refugees into society. The law should be adopted by this summer.

Calling Kreuzberg a ‘no-go zone’ is a dangerous trend in the news media that stigmatises immigrants, refugees and racial minorities, and

It’s too simple to explain the serious crimes against women in Cologne this past New Year’s eve by the assailants’

29 SEPT 2015, BERLIN—I spent all day today at the refugee registration centre, LaGeSo, on Turmstraße. Refugees tell me getting

28.09.15 BERLIN––Yesterday, I went to a picnic, with approximately 1000 people, to welcome refugees to Berlin. It was organised by

  Across from their embassy in Berlin, Hungarian expats are unspooling razor wire littered with rags of clothing, a symbol of

What accounts for Germany’s compassionate and generous response to twenty thousand refugees, from Syria and other conflict zones, who flooded across the

Germany’s antiquated, Version 1,0, civil partnership law for same-sex couples desperately needs an upgrade. In June, the US Supreme Court