Debates / Future

The race to be ‘kingmaker’ is heating up in Germany’s federal elections. With the centre-right CDU and centre-left SPD all but guaranteed to take…

Who is Angela Merkel? Not just the candidate, but the person. She’s certainly one of the most successful politicians in modern…

Germany’s two main parties haven’t exactly run the most exciting of election campaigns. However, the contest between the smaller parties has…

What do Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) believe? How are they different from Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (with whom they’ve been governing in…

Europe’s “Super Election Year” is set to end not with a bang but a whimper. After shock election results in France…