We must stop funding Putin’s war with our energy imports

Europe is suffering from high gas prices. At some gas hubs, they increased more than 250% since January, and already have impact on the retail prices for house­holds in many...

A four-month stand-off between Belaru­sian strongman Alexander Lukashenko and the pro-demo­c­ratic protesters posed a serious challenge for the EU. The block that had announced its ambition to become a geopo­lit­ical actor, has...

Online-Panel Discus­sion on October 6, 2020, with Gunther Krichbaum, Johannes Schraps, Renata Alt, Manuel Sarrazin und others.

Are Russia’s inter­ven­tions in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria merely a reaction against the expansion of NATO? Facts and arguments concerning a propa­ganda myth.

During the election campaign, appealing to people’s anger and demo­nizing the opponents is the most common strategy. Political programs hardly matter. The political landscape is highly frag­mented. In election polls,...

In the coalition agreement, the CDU and the SPD dodge important reforms and take a scat­ter­shot approach to the distri­b­u­tion of a great deal of money. The big chal­lenges, like climate, demographic...

The rapid pace of moderni­sa­tion renders people suscep­tible to populism. In cosmopolitan milieus, this came as a surprise. Yet the warning signs had long been apparent.