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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.
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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