After taking more than 13% of the vote, this young party is entering parliament for the first time. And a lot of people are upset about it.
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The chancellor wins again, but the rise of the populists will probably force the next administration to the right.
The chancellor remains strong but right-wing populists are likely to enter parliament on Sunday.
Few thought she’d go the distance when she first came to power. That was more than a decade ago.
German elections are typically tame. Jockeying for power takes place later, in negotiations for a coalition government. Could the xenophobic Alternative for Germany form the opposition?
Angela Merkel is on course for victory but she will need to form a coalition, and there’s more than one way to make that happen.
Politicians need to get serious about the steady drip of scandals.
The swastika, an ancient and innocent symbol in many cultures for hundreds of years, now represents racial hatred. Should the swastika be banned in North America as it is in Germany?
Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
The 1954 defection of West Germany’s first domestic spy chief and ardent anti-Nazi rocked the world – and then he returned to Bonn.
Chaplin’s 1940 film ‘The Great Dictator’ mocks Hitler’s absurdity and overweening vanity, while highlighting Germany’s psychological captivity to a political fraud.
Two new laws have grappled with ideas of diversity and the traditional family in Germany.
The rise of the middle class in Africa is fuelling consumer economies and protection policies. But they tend to be disconnected from sustainability issues.
Follow the money to see if Angela Merkel is on course for a fourth term as chancellor after the September vote.
Politicians hope that a “museum of fascism” in Benito Mussolini’s hometown can help the country face its demons. Historians aren’t so sure.
SMEs make up 99.9% of all businesses in the UK – boosting their productivity could add billions to the post-Brexit economy.
Cities have always been more than a dense collection of people. They are labs of innovation, hotbeds of crime and inequality, architectural stunners, decaying ruins and everything in between.
Merkel’s popularity at home and on the global stage continues to grow as she runs for a fourth term as chancellor.
G20 meetings are usually bland, tightly-scripted affairs. Donald Trump has changed all of that with his retrenchment on climate change, free trade and internationalism.
Looking like a centrist, but governing as a conservative, Angela Merkel has cleared the decks before the coming German election.
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Reader in Politics, Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
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Reader in European Politics, University of Westminster
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Professor in International History, Flinders University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Economics at Maastricht School of Management and Jean Monnet Chair, Technical University of Cologne
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Assistant Professor of German and Global Studies, Michigan State University
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Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
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Professor of Economics, Skidmore College
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Professor of Economics, University of Leeds
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Professor, University of Leeds
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland