"The Humboldt Forum is a spectacular idea. But it will take the right intellectual architect to pull it off. We will have to trust Neil MacGregor"

"The sudden rise of Pegida suggests Germany hasn’t found a way to digest the idea of immigration."

"Just how much Germany has changed is nowhere more visible than in the eyes of its most reluctant ally, Britain"

'With readership in decline, the German press faces not only a dire economic challenge but an identity crisis'