The German Chancellor is still keeping the long-range missiles promised during the election campaign on the back burner. Meanwhile, the UK and France are sharing data with Kyiv to produce the Storm Shadow-Scalp missiles in Ukraine: Berlin is providing funding and co-producing them, but continues to drag its feet over the delivery of the Taurus missiles

Italian expansion into Germany. The Germans have noticed it, but we haven’t. Lessons in political realism against sovereignty movements

The BSW has not ruled out supporting the ultra-nationalists in the Magdeburg elections. According to the former parliamentary group leader of Die Linke, the country “needs a fresh start”

The former leader of Germany’s oldest party has torn to shreds not so much the Social Democrats’ guiding star, but the way in which the political party has viewed that star: “The real problem is not the firewall, but the major misunderstanding about what a welfare state is”

Why the proposal to lower the threshold from 5 to 3 per cent is causing a rift in the consensus on a rule that has remained unchanged for seventy years

At the June congress of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a proposal was put to the vote aimed at replacing Christian holidays with German neo-pagan celebrations, starting with the winter and summer solstices. These would be proper public holidays, with shops, schools and offices closed and celebrations taking place across the country.