Europe

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.