Tag: Europe

With the election to determine his successor less than 20 days away, U.S. President Joe Biden is in Germany for a final meeting with one of Washington’s closest allies.  Biden ...

The right-wing wave surging through Europe picked up size and speed on Sept. 29 as Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party won the country’s general election. Following on the heels of far-right ...

Germany’s 2021 national election campaign to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor became a competition among various candidates to imitate her cautious political style. The ultimate winner of the election—Olaf Scholz, ...

Picture this scenario. It’s 2028, and U.S. intelligence services have assessed that the Chinese military is preparing a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to make good on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ...

SCHORFHEIDE, Germany—At the Schorfheide Breakfast, an annual event north of Berlin, a husband-and-wife acoustic duo regals strollers with upbeat renditions of ’60s tunes along with a snippet of Marlene Dietrich. ...

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There’s little doubt that Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine transformed NATO. Sweden and Finland reversed decades of policy to join the military alliance, and member states ramped up their defense ...

Small European states, such as Denmark, face daily the threat of an environmental Armageddon, as dozens of decrepit, single-hulled, barely insured Russian oil tankers wend their way through the narrowest ...

In the context of a turbulent and unsatisfying three years in office, the incredibly awful September in progress might rank as the three-party German government’s grimmest month yet. After elections ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on Germany’s supposed stinginess, hypocrisy, and lack of a geopolitical compass. The country’s 2025 draft budget, approved by the governing coalition after some acrimony, ...