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...
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...
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....