Geopolitics
Politico – Germany and Ukraine sign €5B deal on long-range weapons cooperation
Merz is proving to be even more gung-ho in his warmongering than Scholz. Read the article HERE.
Germany
Geopolitics
Felix Helberg – How Postwar Germany Fell in Love With Israel
‘As Israeli tanks rolled into the Sinai in the 1967 war, West Germany saw itself marching alongside them. Even former Nazis could identify with Israeli expansionism — and used this support to absolve their own […]
Geopolitics
Dave Braneck – In Germany, Too, Pro-Palestine Protesters Get Deported
‘Berlin’s city government has moved to deport four pro-Palestine protesters. Even as centrist parties warn against the far-right threat, they introduce the powers beloved by authoritarian leaders.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Molly O’Neal – German leaders have miscalculated popular will for war spending
Polling suggests the German public has not been won over to the establishment’s war fever. Molly O’Neal is a university lecturer and research scholar, with a long diplomatic career focused on Central Europe, Russia and […]
EU politics
Zachary Gallant – Germany’s Shallow Reckoning With Its Nazi Past
‘Credit Suisse is currently under investigation by the US Senate for obstructing investigations into its servicing of Nazi-linked clients. But the bank is far from alone: many German firms have never given up the monetary […]
EU politics
Adam Tooze – Chartbook 356: Deutschland 2025 – A live (and complicated) democracy
Analysis of the German election result. In Adam Tooze’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Ed Turner – Germany’s political turbulence will continue
It looks like a Christian Democrats-Social Democrats coalition government is on the cards, which may be the final death nail for the German establishment. Ed Turner is Reader in Politics at Aston University in Birmingham […]
EU politics
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux – The German left has lost its monopoly on class consciousness
Class identity still matters in politics, the problem is that the left has forgotten how to activate it. Linus Westheuser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Thomas Lux is a Postdoctoral Researcher at […]
Finance
Heinrich Neuhaus – Germany: Alstom, staff cuts, closures, relocation
More signs of Germany de-industrialising, leaving thousands of workers in search of decent jobs. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the full article HERE.
Geopolitics
Esad Širbegović – How the Magdeburg Christmas market attack exposed Germany’s blindness to Islamophobic violence
Germany’s state-sponsored Islamophobia means that the ideology motivating the Magdeburg Christmas market attacker has to be brushed under the carpet. Esad Širbegović is a writer and analyst based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is also a […]