Investigative Journalism
Several shots in a residential building in northwest Moscow. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, 64 years old, first deputy chief of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, is taken to a hospital seriously injured. The attacker escapes ...
Hungary is taking its case to the European Court of Justice and openly positioning itself against the European Union’s course of phasing out Russian gas imports. With its lawsuit against the REPowerEU regulation, Budapest is escalating a conflict that has long ...
For years, Russia has built a quiet but effective supply system that circumvents Western sanctions and keeps its oil fleet operational. At the center are ship engines and spare parts from a Finnish manufacturer that continue ...
Donald Trump delivered a remarkable speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that makes his leadership style in his second term unmistakably clear: he wants Greenland for the United States ...
On Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Donald Trump delivered a rare, nearly two-hour display of power that sounded less like foreign policy than an improvised program for a new world order. It was the anniversary of his ...
In the cold of Copenhagen over the weekend, red baseball caps appeared that at first glance look familiar and at second glance call everything into question. Instead of Trump’s slogan, a clear ...
Sarah B. Rogers holds the office of Under Secretary of the United States for Public Diplomacy at the State Department. In this role, she bears responsibility for the international communication of the American government ...
The meeting in the orbit of the White House was meant to calm the heated situation, but in the end it mainly brought clarity about the front lines. After talks with Vice President J.D. Vance and ...
Donald Trump wants Greenland. Not symbolically, but literally. After the assault on Venezuela’s President Maduro, the U.S. president now presents himself without limits, and Greenland is his next target. He says he needs the island ...
Since September 2023, a criminal trial has been underway in Stockholm that appears outwardly inconspicuous but breaks new legal ground. Two former executives of the Swedish company Lundin Oil are standing trial on charges ...
With a single post, Donald Trump reignited a simmering conflict and at the same time pushed it to a far higher level of escalation. The US president appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, ...
What Alice Weidel is currently selling as a triumph is, upon closer examination, the opposite. The ruling of December 18, 2025, by the Administrative Court of Weimar, Case No. 8 K 1271/23 We, is clear, sober, and ...
Three years after its introduction, the citizen’s benefit is effectively over. The federal cabinet has launched a reform that replaces the existing system with a new basic income support and introduces significantly harsher rules ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a far reaching offer on Sunday in Berlin - and at the same time drew a clear line. Kyiv is prepared to drop its bid to join NATO ...
Donald Trump's administration has published a paper that rolls across Europe like a political quake. In dry bureaucratic language, but with an ideological force rarely expressed so openly, Washington tells the European states ...
Around the Temple of Debod, thousands of people stood shoulder to shoulder this weekend. Families, older couples, students, working people, veterans of democracy - a cross-section of ...
France is changing something fundamental in its relationship between the state and society. A country that has lived in peace for decades is introducing a paid, voluntary military service for young adults ...
In Eupen, the small capital of the German-speaking community in Belgium, a group of ordinary citizens meets on Saturdays to discuss issues that would otherwise get stuck in political committees. A truck driver, a physical therapist, a laboratory assistant ...
Belgrade – It was a quiet but unmistakable uprising. Thousands of young Serbians formed a human chain on Tuesday around the destroyed military headquarters in the center of Belgrade – that memorial ...
Kyle of Lochalsh - Late in the evening, five men stand in the hall of Scot West Seafoods. The light is harsh, the air smells of salt and metal. They ...
A report on the radicalization of youth between algorithms and fear. The Concert. July 2025. Under the Croatian summer sky, music thunders over a crowd that stretches to the horizon ...
It begins with a sentence that sounds like it comes from a foreign civilization: "Russia destroys strategically important kindergarten in Kharkiv." The text - an alleged satire by the German magazine Der Postillon ...
It is a decision meant to sound like determination but in truth exposes the complete distance from reality. On October 20, 2025, the energy ministers of the European Union agreed to gradually ...
A European warning signal came in the form of a sentence, as cool as it was controlled: "Sometimes we simply no longer tell certain things." No affront, no scandal - just a sober admission ...
The government calls it reform, but in truth it is a change of system. With the abolition of citizen’s income and the introduction of a so-called new basic security, a chapter begins that ...
As Russia sinks into war, the state budget runs deep red figures, and drones from Ukraine reach the Black Sea coast itself, a world of luxury grows in the shadow of Vladimir Putin's palace in Gelendzhik ...
The Federal Republic is reeling. Not suddenly, not unexpectedly, but with the creeping certainty of a train that has long since passed the switch. What plays out in the social media feeds of right-wing politicians is more than political banter ...
There are affairs that disappear after a few days, and there are events that shift the foundation of a democracy. 250,000 euros of taxpayer money for a think tank ...
Europe feels the cold breath of a political turning point – and it does not come from Moscow. It is the United States under Donald Trump that is shaking Europe’s internal balance with missionary zeal.
A phantom as a state enemy: Viktor Orbán is copying Trump’s plan to designate Antifa a terrorist organization. In Hungary, where antifascist groups are hardly present, a sideshow thus becomes a political spectacle - and a scapegoat ...
The rain lashed in irregular showers across Westminster Bridge as, on that September Saturday in 2025, a mass of people formed like London had rarely seen. Hundreds of thousands poured through the streets ...
The numbers speak a brutal language: 62 out of 100 points on the financial distress scale. Texas, Florida, and Louisiana – precisely those states that present themselves as beacons of conservative politics ...
Kyiv is burning – literally and figuratively. On Sunday night, Russia launched the largest drone attack since the beginning of the war. 805 Shahed drones, supplemented by 13 missiles, rained down ...
Sometimes the transformation of a society first becomes visible in its schools - that was one of the central findings of our investigation. It is a moment that lingers: In Russia, the Prosecutor General ...
Germany is at a tipping point. The news of the last few weeks is clear: almost 115,000 industrial jobs have disappeared within a year, more than 50,000 of them in the automotive sector alone, ...
It was an image that is likely to go down in history: Donald Trump at his golf club in Turnberry, the sun at his back, Ursula von der Leyen opposite him, smiling politely as the cameras clicked.
Markus Söder loves to appear in costumes. Sometimes as a nutcracker, sometimes as Superman, sometimes as "Doner-Söder," posing between meat skewers and food trucks as if he were an influencer of the fast-food industry ...
It is a grim image painted by the UNICEF report Innocenti Report Card 19 – an image that shows children in Germany far removed from the sense of security that still dominates the country’s public self-image...
It is a strange reflex of German politics to look across the Atlantic with a mixture of horror and a secret fascination whenever the wrecking ball once again swings through democratic ...
The republic is at a tipping point. 26 percent for the AfD is more than a statistical anomaly - it is the symptom of a fundamental shift, the scope of which we may only understand ...
The withdrawal of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf from her candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court on August 8, 2025 marks a turning point that goes far beyond the person and the office.
It is a picture that seems to come from another world: while in Moscow sanctions and international isolation tighten their grip on the political elite of the Putin era, ...
Donald Trump has done it again – announced a deal that sounds like an agreement but in reality represents a far-reaching increase in costs. In Turnberry, Scotland, at one of his golf courses, ...
The setting could hardly have been more symbolic. As seagulls circled over the windswept Scottish coastal town of Turnberry, Donald Trump personally steered a golf cart across the lawn of his namesake luxury estate ...
Something is happening in Hungary - a lot, in fact. That became clear to us in February when we traveled to Budapest to investigate several topics: a clandestine meeting and concert of ...
Weeks of research into the product by Babel Street, based in Washington, D.C., reveal a surveillance system that deeply infringes on privacy – and has long since found its way into official circles in Germany...
There are stories that only the 21st century can write - stories in which absurdity is no longer the exception, but the system. The story of Henri Édouard Proglio is one of them. While France delivers weapons ...
It is a quiet revolution, initiated not with fanfare but with treaties, train journeys and sober press statements. While Donald Trump once again shakes the transatlantic alliance ...
It was no ordinary talk show. It was a cross-examination. A lesson in how political campaigns condense into personal attacks - and how a jurist who has dedicated her entire life to academia must defend ...
It began gradually, like everything that ultimately becomes irreversible. First, the lightness disappeared, then the sand. What once embodied the promise of the South in countless images ...