The Empty Land - Scotland’s Lonely Search for People. Germany’s Future if the Course Remains
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 ...
The Seed of Wrath – Europe’s Lost Generation
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 ...
The Laughter Over the Rubble - When Western Satire Loses Its Own Soul
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 ...
The Dawn of Ignorance - How Europe Makes a Fool of Itself with Sanctions
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 ...
The Silent Break - Why the Netherlands No Longer Tells the United States Everything
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 New Hardness - Merz, the "Little-Trump" Principle and the Dismantling of the Minimum
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 ...
Putin toasts the dead - with technology “Made in Europe” - An investigative report
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 ...
Germany – A Glimpse into the Possible Abyss
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 ...
The Price of the Fire Wall – How the CDU Uses Taxpayer Money to Strengthen the AfD
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 ...
From Alliance to Threat – Trump’s America Wants a Europe in the Shadow of Fascism
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.
The Great Imitation - Orbán Follows Trump Into the Realm of Shadow Enemies
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 ...
When London Burned: The Day 150,000 Marched
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 Price of Delusion – Why Germany Must Be Careful Not to Import Trump Conditions
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 ...
Flashpoint Kyiv – and the Information War Trump No Longer Fights
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 ...
Attorneys General of Control - How Russia and Texas Turn the Classroom Into a Stage of Power
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 ...
The Ticking Time Bomb of Deindustrialization – Why Berlin Must Act Now Before the AfD Could Take Over the Country
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, ...
Tribute Out of Fear - How Europe Is Now the Big Loser in the Tariff Dispute
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.
Doner-Söder and the Deportation of Care
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 ...
The Lost Childhood – Germany’s Decline in the International Comparison of Child Well‑Being
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...
Germany is not taking the shot seriously
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 Creeping Normalization of the Extreme
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 Brosius-Gersdorf Case: A Mirror of Our Time
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.
In the Shadow of the Adriatic - Valentina Matviyenko's Son, Italian Villas, and the Quiet Empire of San Marino
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, ...
A Deal With a Price – and Many German Media Fundamentally Misunderstand It
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, ...
“No Tariff Below 15 Percent” – Trump’s Power Play with Europe
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 ...
Péter Magyar, Pride and Protest - What Really Began in Budapest at the End of June
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 ...
Germany in the Data Crosshairs – How Babel X Paves the Way to Total Control
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...
The Man Who Works for Two Armies - How Henri Proglio Counts Putin’s Millions and Inspects Kyiv’s Weapons
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 ...
Brothers in Spirit - How Merz, Macron and Starmer Are Shaping Europe's Response to Trump's Retreat
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 ...
"Unfit for Office!" - How Alice Weidel and a Right-Wing Conservative Platform Targeted a Constitutional Judge
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 ...
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