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Der Spiegel accuses Scholz of ‘leading country into chaos’ as MPs scramble to plug €60bn shortfall

Constitutional court ruling leaves the country’s federal budget in disarray and threatens investment in climate transition projects, rail system upgrades and Intel factory

Economists have long warned that Germany’s constitutional debt-brake is a timebomb on a long fuse. That bomb has now detonated at the most critical moment in German economic history since the launch of the Wirtschaftswunder in 1949.

Marko Bojcun — This article explores the origins of the Ukrainian crisis in several historical developments that came together in 2014.

Welche Krisen prägten die 16 Jahre unter Angela Merkel? Wann waren ihre Umfragewerte hoch, wann niedrig? Der Rückblick in Grafiken.

Four years ago, Saudi operatives murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent regime critic. His fiancee, human rights activist Hatice Cengiz, recently gave a lecture in Berlin that was both a speech of mourning and indictment.

The participation of Denmark in all the key U.S. and NATO interventions in 1991–2020 did not free the country from reputational

By Ty McCormick In 2012, the world witnessed an unusual number of high profile elections. Between the US battle royale, Vladimir Putin’s return to...

Germany's Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals want to form a government but are unable to come up with a program that would at least point in the direction of fixing the most pressing social and ecological issues.

<p><span>On the occasion of the meeting of the ECB Governing Council on 16 December 2021, a high-level working group headed by former prime ministers and candidates for chancellor Peer Steinbrück and Edmund Stoiber is calling on the European Cen-tral Bank to do more to reduce the increasing inflation rate. Stoiber and Steinbrück: "The ECB is neglecting its fundamental task of maintaining price stability by not ad-justing its ultra-loose monetary policy despite ...