OnTuesday, December 11, just before8 PM, a lone attacker, Cherif Chekatt, armed with a handgun and a knife, killed five people and injured a dozen others who were visiting the famous Christmas market…

Almost 2,000 journalists descended onHamburglast week to witness a spectacle not seen since 1971: an open competition for the leadership of Germany’s most successful political party. The 1,001…

TheEuropean Unionhas always struggled to accommodate the democratic politics of its members. The problem became serious in 1999, with the creation of a currency union without an accompanying…

Franceis a country with a long history of rebellions, but it has never seen anything quite like the revolt of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests), that which erupted in mid-November. Disturbed by the…

As the head of the country’s biggest political party for eighteen years, and its chancellor for twelve,Angela Merkelhas done more to shape contemporaryGermanythan any post-war leader other than…