20.07.2021
Germany: Towards a Socio-Ecological Market Society?

The government that takes power after September 2021 will have crucial choices to make – but what might it look like?

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16.07.2021
Beyond the Berlin Republic: Germany’s Road to the Polls

As campaigning for the German federal elections intensifies, we look at the path ahead for parties in the race.

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12.03.2021
Germany’s Year of Elections: Has the Pandemic Scuppered the Green Rise?

With three candidates in the running for the chancellery, the electoral race is still open and polls could begin to shift as lockdowns are lifted.

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19.06.2020
Only Transnational Politics Can Break Europe’s Deadlock

Germany has shifted its position to unlock the route to an EU recovery fund. But Europe still needs a political alternative to inter-governmental deadlock.

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22.06.2018
The troubling transformation of the EU

In its quest for competitiveness, the EU is becoming an increasingly coercive system, controlling members through a myriad of rules and mechanisms.

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27.03.2018
Surviving the storm: liberal democracy in times of change

A shared republican understanding of democracy could offer a way out from the dead ends of ethnic nationalism and identity politics.

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11.01.2018
‘What we have achieved has to become the benchmark’ – Interview with Reinhard Bütikofer

Why the Jamaica coalitions talks with Merkel failed and where things will go from here.

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29.06.2017
Pairing up to Repair Europe: France and Germany

France and Germany make up the motor of Europe and partly determine its future, but what are their cooperation prospects in the face of 2017 elections?

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23.01.2017
“A coalition is not a love match” – Interview with Ralf Fücks

A discussion with Ralf Fücks, outgoing president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, on the situation in Germany, coalitions with Merkel and the rise of the AfD.

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