Europe

In recent decades, Germany has shied away from being too assertive in its foreign policy. But growing global uncertainties mean that – regardless of Sunday’s election result – that is changing. Policy expert EMILY MANSFIELD analyses exactly where the country (and by extension the EU) is heading German foreign policy is currently in a transitional […]

Angela Merkel may be on course for victory but her campaign for the German chancellorship is not the stately procession it might seem from afar. TONY PATERSON joins her on a decidedly bumpy election trail Earlier this year the twin political earthquakes of Brexit and Donald Trump prompted shaken Europeans to dub her the last […]

A refusal to confront its past leaves France facing an uncertain future, argues MARTIN EVANS All countries have difficult chapters from their past, which continue to cast a shadow on the present. For France, the Vichy period certainly fits into that category. But, as the country has lately been considering, its colonial past is every […]