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Sunday, October 09, 2022 PoliticsBusinessArts & LifeTrans-AtlanticBerlin Sommer Time By Detlef Prinz August 2022 For us, Theo Sommer was always Ted.The invitation to call him Ted was both a sign of familiarity and an expression of generosity, magnanimity and the absence of any kind of conceit on his part. People who had the … Read more Diplomatic hub By Detlef Prinz September 2021 The rapid tectonic shifts that are currently taking place in international politics are illustrated by the case of Afghanistan and the role of Qatar, a small country in terms of area but a big one in terms of diplomacy. Certainly, … Read more Ticking time bomb By Mirco Keilberth June 2021 Religious hatred often begins in schools as seen most recently in the recent escalation of the Middle East conflict. This dangerous dimension has long been ignored, also by the EU.One has to take a closer look, specifically at what … Read more Dear Mr. President By Detlef Prinz January 2021 A letter to President Joe Biden from the publisher Detlef W. PrinzDear Mr. President,Congratulations! When today, at 12 noon Washington time, you swear your oath to the US Constitution and are officially inaugurated as the 46th president of … Read more A call for European leadership in times of turmoil By Theo Sommer October 2020 No one looking back on the past decade can do so with satisfaction, let alone complacency. The world has become unstable. The international order created after World War II is breaking down; the global institutions established as part of that … Read more Éminence grise By Gemma Pörzgen October 2020 Putin has not yet chosen a course vis-à-vis Belarus, but all signs point to his continued support for LukashenkoAfter the disputed presidential election in Belarus on Aug. 9, Vladimir Putin was one of the first to congratulate Alexander Lukashenko … Read more Backroom bravado: Who will succeed Angela Merkel By Lutz Lichtenberger October 2020 Her era will have to come to an end eventually. Angela Merkel has been German chancellor since 2005; you would have to look long and hard to find another politician holding a country’s top political position for so long, autocracies … Read more German-Russian relations are poisoned, but common interests persist By Michael Thumann October 2020 There are Russians who see German hospitals as a salvation, and there are Russians who see them as a curse. The family of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s foremost opposition leader, arranged for him to be treated at Berlin’s Charité hospital after … Read more Pondering a possible Biden-Harris administration By Juliane Schäuble October 2020 In most corners of the world, hopes are running high that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will win the upcoming US election and thus bring to a close this current dark chapter. These hopes, however, rest on less-than-sound footing, and … Read more Cancel culture: Values and moral priorities are changing rapidly By Jonathan Lutes October 2020 There’s a new buzzterm in Western politics, culture and media, and it should come to no one’s surprise that it’s also a trigger for both sides of the ever-hardening left-right ideological divide. “Cancel culture” – or sometimes “call-out culture” – … Read more Power forward: The art of the green new deal By Ralph Diermann October 2020 Natural gas and oil are a shout-out from a distant past. Several hundred millions of years passed before dead biomass at the bottom of primordial oceans formed the energy sources that run today’s motors, comprise our industrial products and heat … Read more Mandatory Musk: Tesla is building a factory in Brandenburg By Ina Mathes October 2020 Elon Musk is standing on the construction site of his European Gigafactory. Behind him in the distance, a dense arrangement of concrete pillars rises up from the ground. A traditional German “topping-out” garland swings in the wind as it hangs … Read more Divergent paths: Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic By Holger Schmieding October 2020 Rarely do the results of political choices become so visible so fast. After COVID-19 turned from a China-centered tragedy into a global threat some six months ago, all advanced economies faced a similar set of challenges. But they reacted differently. … Read more Why eastern Germany shifted to the right By Wolfgang Engler October 2020 Eastern and western Germany continue to drift apart in political terms, despite economic achievements (i.e., growth, employment, wages, pensions, etc.) in the former states of the GDR. While voters in the West are increasingly going green, voters in the East … Read more Eastern Germany is finally asserting itself By Martin Machowecz October 2020 Over the past several years, there’s one question that has dumbfounded western Germans as they gaze eastward: How is it possible that the whole “growing together” thing hasn’t worked out, even more than 30 years after the fall of the … Read more 123…19 #WunderbarTogetherAvatarMax Bouchet@MaxDavidBouchet·30 Sep#WunderbarTogether Day of German Unity at the Residence of the German Ambassador in the US ??????Wondering whether the Beer Garden is there all year round!? @GermanyinUSA 2Reply on Twitter 1575689001264357376Retweet on Twitter 1575689001264357376Like on Twitter 1575689001264357376Twitter 1575689001264357376AvatarGerman Consulate General Atlanta@GermanyAtlanta·28 Sep⚽️ German Consulate representatives had the pleasure of welcoming @bierhoff_oliver to Atlanta yesterday. 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