European Eye

‘How hospitable will Germans be now that travel restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians have been lifted?’

‘Angela Merkel’s mobile phone is her instrument of power. What happens when this tool of democracy is subverted by our most important ally?’

‘This is a German election and a Brit may argue you wouldn’t expect a flamboyant spectacle. But the current lethargy is a peculiar one’

The feud at Germany’s most respected publishing house reads like a passage from Vanity Fair written by Thomas Mann

‘At the election in September, Germans will have to decide whether Angela
Merkel’s modesty and prudence are proof enough of her virtue’

‘Despite the Turkish origins of most of the victims, the Munich court failed to allocate a single press seat in the Zschäpe murder trial to a Turkish media outlet’

‘Germany is seeing a definite increase in Euroscepticism—and now it’s coming from the Left too’

‘”You could certainly fill a dirndl,” the elder statesman said, before taking her hand, kissing it and propositioning her’

‘Journalists discussed the prospective disappearance of their newspapers as if they were watching their own funeral but not quite believing their eyes’