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.