Merkel
The government that takes power after September 2021 will have crucial choices to make – but what might it look like?
Read moreAs campaigning for the German federal elections intensifies, we look at the path ahead for parties in the race.
Read moreWith three candidates in the running for the chancellery, the electoral race is still open and polls could begin to shift as lockdowns are lifted.
Read moreGermany has shifted its position to unlock the route to an EU recovery fund. But Europe still needs a political alternative to inter-governmental deadlock.
Read moreIn its quest for competitiveness, the EU is becoming an increasingly coercive system, controlling members through a myriad of rules and mechanisms.
Read moreA shared republican understanding of democracy could offer a way out from the dead ends of ethnic nationalism and identity politics.
Read moreWhy the Jamaica coalitions talks with Merkel failed and where things will go from here.
Read moreFrance 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?
Read moreA 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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