Chancellor Angela Merkel wouldn’t like to see Britain leave the EU, but a remain vote is not necessarily an easy option either.
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Surely it isn’t too far-fetched to claim that if migrants are to promote democracy back home, it is beneficial for them to experience democratic values and principles in the countries hosting them.
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.
African mathematicians and scientists have an important role to play in establishing and protecting a democratic continent.
Probably no other country has struggled as hard to come to terms with its past as Germany. Here’s what students contributed to that struggle.
This is what could cause the collapse of the EU – and what could save it.
The violence in Cologne over New Year’s Eve has undermined the “culture of welcome” so dear to Chancellor Angela Merkel. A European response is all the more urgent to face the populist threat.
Germany has been a world leader in taking in refugees, but a xenophobic outcry at a wave of sexual assaults puts the government in a tight spot.
Angela Merkel is entering her first proper war by joining the campaign against Islamic State.
Afghan, Syrian and Eritrean refugees keep arriving on Europe’s shores, reputedly at an increasing rate. They attempt to traverse the Mediterranean by land and sea, presumably hastened by Putin’s bombing…
How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
Much of the conventional wisdom among academics over the last decade or so has focused on the convergent trends in European government policies toward both migrants and asylum seekers. Spurred on by European…
When it comes to Europe, Germany can’t win either way.
A punitive deal which makes life hard for the Greek people and which sets dangerous precedents for the eurozone.
Angela Merkel chose domestic politics over foreign policy, and the results could be disastrous.
Backed into a corner as the banks reached the brink, the Greek prime minister may have fashioned some sort of success, and the prospect of something approaching debt relief a little down the line.
Angela Merkel is in a tight spot, and her usual tactics won’t work.
European leaders have consistently claimed that their anti-contagion measures would protect the rest of the eurozone from a Greek exit. This looks like pure propaganda.
G7 leaders have pledged to help end the world’s fossil fuel use by the end of the century. It’s a laudable aim, but decarbonisation can and should be done by the middle, not the end, of this century.
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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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