Opinion and Politics

BERLIN, 18 JUNE 2016 Fellow Europeans, let me offer you yet a cup of Brexit poison, one laced with Schadenfreude.

Islamic militants are responsible for what happened today in Paris, but remember that they are precisely what refugees arriving in Europe are running

Berlin 22 OCT 2015.  Canada has a new leader, but what have we learned from the Stephen Harper years? Living in Berlin,

Greece has accepted a tough deal of austerity from European lenders, a “reversal of expectations” (the literal definition of “catastrophe”

This week, we face up to the disaster of the Euro and the deeply flawed European project. As someone who once

31.08.2014 From Berlin, Russia is a 7-hour drive. The Ukraine is only a little farther by car. And sometimes I

Things are rough these days between Germany and the USA. But I wonder whether Germans were ever really in love

‘Have you seen the public awareness posters in the U-Bahn about people who suffer from incontinence?’ a friend asks me