The Brexit deadline has been pushed back again — this time until Oct. 31, granting U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May six months to consider a new plan. We talked to London-based German journalist Imke Henkel to hear more about what the extension means for Britain and Europe.
In light of continued rent increases in Berlin, a radical approach has fueled the housing debate: expropriation. We talked to Ralf Schönball from Der Tagesspiegel about the initiative and how Berlin politicians are reacting.
This week in politics: A controversial new copyright directive is approved by the EU and #FridaysForFuture leader Greta Thunberg joins the Berlin rally. We found out more from Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Nana Brink.
We talked to Bojan Pancevski, Germany correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, about the U.S. warning to limit intelligence sharing if Germany works with Chinese tech company Huawei on 5G networks.
At last week’s Munich Security Conference, Angela Merkel received a standing ovation for her remarks, in which she critiqued President Trump’s foreign policy approach. We asked journalist Erik Kirschbaum for his take.
On Monday, the German government will hold a hearing regarding a proposed bill to revise paragraph 219a, the country’s law on advertising abortion. We break down some of the essential questions around this discussion.
It started with Greta Thunberg in Sweden and has spread worldwide. Fridays for Future, the climate change protests led by students, has drawn thousands since beginning in Germany. We asked Tagesspiegel’s Susanne Ehlerding to tell us more.
This week in politics: a new debate on car pollution started among German doctors. We asked Handelsblatt Today’s editor-in-chief Andreas Kluth for his take.
This week in politics, we spoke to Henning Hoff, executive editor of the Berlin Policy Journal, to get his views on the political headlines of the week. French…
This week in politics, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May survived a second no-confidence vote a day after her Brexit deal was defeated in Parliament. Is Germany prepared for…
