Do we need a different kind of politics? Yes – but we’ll only achieve it if we approach politics differently than we have in the past. A sense of discomfort is spreading—dissatisfaction with “politics“, the government, the state, and those in power. This sentiment is not mine alone. “The current way of doing politics no […]
The European Union has yet to be created. The following article is already 6 years old, but has lost none of its relevance. Only the external circumstances have changed. “Why Trump Can Safely Ignore Europe, Its Leaders readily condemn but never act” Jeremy Shapiro, Director of Research at the European Council on Foreign […]
These days, Germany gives the impression of being driven, rather than being in the driver seat. Deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine remain the number one topic of discussion – especially since Kiev is demanding a second helping. First tanks, followed by fighter jets German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been much criticised by NATO allies, […]
1. What Europe means (to us) „Ach Europa!“ (Europe, Europe: Forays into a Continent) is the title of a book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, which he wrote about half a century after the end of the last huge catastrophe of European civilisation. His diagnosis of the “paradox Europe” reads: “It is the irregularity, the confusion […]
