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 ...
Summer in Flames – How Climate Change Is Destroying Europe's Holiday Paradise
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 ...
The New Trade Front – Europe’s Response to Trump’s Tariff War
Brussels, mid-July 2025. A shadow fell across the halls of the European institutions as Donald Trump announced new tariffs from the White House – 30 percent on imports from the European Union, ...
How Russia’s Technical Commission Is Pushing Europe into Digital Isolation
Investigations reveal: The State Technical Commission of the Russian Federation – Gosudarstvennaya Tekhnicheskaya Komissiya, or GosTekhKomissiya for short – is far more than a body for device certification. It is the invisible gear in Putin’s war economy ...
The Un-electable - How the CDU Suddenly Wants to Protect the Constitution
Once upon a time, there was a Bundestag that remembered its dignity. And because the republic stood on shaky ground, it resolved to elect constitutional judges...
The Cold Truth About MH17 and How the European Court of Human Rights Finally Holds Russia Accountable
It begins with an indictment that was long overdue. For years, the families of the victims of flight MH17 fought for justice - against the machinery of international politics, against Moscow’s refusal to accept responsibility.
The Long Shadow of Remigration - How Martin Sellner Spoke at the Town Hall Despite a Ban and the AfD Provided Intellectual Cover
Chemnitz/Stade, July 2025 – It was an appearance that should never have happened - and yet it did. Martin Sellner, the central figure of the so-called “Identitarian Movement”
Lost Dignity in Color - Statue of Liberty Weeps in Roubaix
One day before American Independence Day, a new mural was unveiled in the northern French city of Roubaix ...
When Will Friedrich Merz Get the Orange Toupee? – Germany in the Shadow of a Republican Dream
A country that intends to cut its development aid by one billion euros, with the parliamentary decision scheduled for July 9, that relativizes human rights and deports critically ill individuals without wheelchairs ...
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