Recent talks to form a new German government have surprisingly ended in a failure. In the face of major upheavals and challenges, political parties that are not fundamentally different need to find a solution quickly, says Alexander Freund.
Argentina's government says it plans to re-open an investigation into alleged money laundering involving the widow and son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Officials say they were "middlemen" in an illegal scheme.
Should Catalonia secede from Spain, it would have drastic consequences for entire Europe as separatist tendencies are rife in other parts of the continent as well. And yet a united Europe is the need of the hour, says Alexander Freund.
Like other European nations, Germany will soon have a far-right party with seats in parliament. However, populist success doesn’t mean democracy has weakened, but rather shows a failure of the establishment to reach disillusioned voters, says Alexander Freund.
The guarantor of German continuity for the country's international role generally, and trans-Atlantic relations in particular, bears the name of Angela Merkel, who despite heavy losses for her party, was re-elected chancellor for a fourth consecutive time.
20-year-old Germans can no longer remember life before Merkel. She has been Germany's leading political figure for 12 years, and may be about to rack up another four. Yet Germany has quite a tradition of long chancellorships.
On September 24, Germans head to the polls in a parliamentary vote that will determine whether Angela Merkel remains chancellor. Here is a breakdown of the ins-and-outs of the Bundestag election process.
When Germans head to the polls on September 24, they'll receive a deceptively simple ballot with two choices — one for a district representative and one for a party.
US First Lady Melania Trump threatened to sue a language school in Croatia after it used her image in their marketing. The billboards appeared to poke fun at Trump, a native of Slovenia, and her heavily accented English.
Three-quarters of all children fleeing to Europe are victims of exploitation and human trafficking, says UNICEF. But it’s not enough to offer better protection to these vulnerable people. Instead, the focus must be on eliminating the reasons that push them to flee in the first place, says Alexander Freund.
