Archivos de Categoría: Alemania

Angela Merkel: The Chancellor’s Crucible

Editorial
The Economist, 07.11.2015
  • After ten years in power, Angela Merkel is being forged anew in the refugee crisis
This September, at the height of what the German press has since dubbed an “autumn fairy-tale”, Angela Merkel visited an asylum centre in Spandau, near Berlin. The refugees greeted the German chancellor as though she were their saviour, pressing...
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What German Solidarity Means to the EU

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 10.11.2015
Forecast
  • German conservatives' criticism of what they perceive as Berlin's soft approach to EU issues will not abate and will affect Germany's foreign and domestic policies in 2016 and particularly after elections in 2017.
  • Within two years, conservative and mildly Euroskeptic governments are likely to rule in Germany and France — the main economic...
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Mort d’Helmut Schmidt, ex-chancelier et artisan de l’amitié franco-allemande

Reportaje
Le Monde, 10.11.2015
Daniel Vernet
L’ancien chancelier allemand Helmut Schmidt, est mort le 10 novembre à l’âge de 96 ans, ont annoncé des médias allemands, en citant un de ses médecins et son entourage. Son état de santé s’était nettement dégradé au cours du week-end. La première fois que les Américains avaient vu à la télévision Helmut Schmidt renifler une poudre brune qu’il venait de déposer soigneusement...
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Granos de arena en el océano de la historia

Columna
La Nación, 06.11.2015
Nora Bär, periodista y columnista argentina
Los primeros asentamientos que darían lugar a lo que hoy es Berlín datan del siglo XIII. La que se convertiría en la capital de la actual República Federal de Alemania era un próspero centro comercial que, tres siglos más tarde, sería el escenario en el que se difundirían...
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Germany and Europe: The Indispensable European

Editorial
The Economist, 07.11.2015
  • Angela Merkel faces her most serious political challenge yet.
  • But Europe needs her more than ever
Look around Europe, and one leader stands above all the rest: Angela Merkel. In France François Hollande has given up the pretence that his country leads the continent David Cameron, triumphantly re-elected, is turning Britain into little England....
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The Next Phase of European Power Politics

Análisis
Geopolitical Weekly, 29.09.2015
Adriano Bosoni, periodista y MBA en RR.II. argentino
The recent battle over a plan to relocate asylum seekers across the European Union did little to appease the already deep fault lines among member states. The proposal was eventually approved, but only after a succession of threats, unilateral moves and violations of EU rules. During...
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Devoted to Terror

Reseña de libro
London Review of Books, Vol.37 (18) 2015
Thomas Laqueur
[BUYKL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann Little Brown, 865 pp, £25.00, April, ISBN 978 0 316 72967 3]
 ‘May the world at least behold a drop, a fraction of this tragic world in which we lived,’ Salmen Gradowski wrote in a letter dated 6 September 1944, which he buried in a flask...
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La mente del siniestro evangelista de Hitler

Opinión
El País, 07.2015
Jacinto Antón
Los diarios de Alfred Rosenberg, el ideólogo del III Reich, muestran a un nazi fatuo, despiadado y obsesionado con el poder
Resulta un raro y oscuro privilegio asomarse a la intimidad de un gran criminal nazi. Si hace unos meses podíamos leer las cartas de Himmler a su esposa (Himmler según la correspondencia...
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Pondering Hitler’s Legacy

Análisis
Geopolitical Weekley, 01.09.2015
George Friedman, presidente de Stratfor Global Intelligence
Happenstance has brought me today to a house on the Austria-Germany border, just south of Salzburg. That puts me about 3 miles from the German town of Berchtesgaden, on the German side of the border. Adolf Hitler's home, the Berghof, was just outside the town, on a...
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