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A German culture scholar looks at how rising fear of terror and a week of violence has affected German media and politics. Will Germany’s open refugee policies last?
Rule one: don’t lose ‘ownership’ of the issue.
It’s true that the establishment has been shaken, but immigration isn’t the only reason voters are looking elsewhere.
Angela Merkel is entering her first proper war by joining the campaign against Islamic State.
When it comes to Europe, Germany can’t win either way.
Angela Merkel’s visit to London could hardly have been given a bigger billing; a speech to both houses of parliament, lunch with the prime minister and then tea with the Queen. David Cameron clearly had…
When in 1987 Margaret Thatcher won the third of her three elections in the UK, she was at the height of her powers. She governed in almost monarchical style, her (internal and external) opponents either…
The results of the German election have been described as a triumph for Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democrats bounced back from their second-worst result since 1949 to heights they have not seen since…
Germans go to the polls this weekend to elect a new four-year parliament – the Bundestag. Barring something extraordinary a coalition headed by Angela Merkel will be returned. But, despite what some commentators…
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Reader in European Politics, University of Westminster
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Reader in Politics, Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
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Assistant Professor of German and Global Studies, Michigan State University
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Professor in International History, Flinders University
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate professor in human geography, University of Oxford
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Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in German and European Politics and Society, Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of German Studies / Chair, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies / Director, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo
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Associate professor of Government at Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor and Fellow in Politics, University of Oxford
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Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute