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• The Secrets to Viktor Orban’s Success

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• Germany Is Debating How Much to Suffer for Ukraine

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• Good riddance Nord Stream 2. Now Europe has a golden opportunity

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• The case for co-locating offshore wind parks and nature reserves

• Get Eastern Europe In On the Green Deal

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• How a Circular Economy Can Help Hit Climate Targets

• The Scandalous History of America’s Newest Media Baron

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• Beyond Copper: How Virtual Power Plants Make the Smart Grid Smarter

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• The Circular Economy

• As the Climate Bakes, Turkey Faces a Future Without Water

• Angry Weather: Attribution Bolsters Climate Science

• We Don’t Need Science Fiction to Avert Climate Catastrophe

• Europe’s Drive to Slash Plastic Waste Moves Into High Gear

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• Waste to Energy – Controversial power generation by incineration

• Has the Coronavirus Disappeared Climate Politics?

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• Poland’s Białowieża forest: an endangered carbon sink and biodiversity reserve

• Germany’s High-Risk Clean-Energy Balancing Act

• World’s Smart Cities Show How They Do it Themselves

• Is Germany Making Too Much Renewable Energy?

• Long Shadow: How Romania’s Securitate Turned the Revolution into Riches

• US exceptionalism is dead, long live US exceptionalism

• As Big Energy Gains, Can Europe’s Community Renewables Compete?

• No Gas, No War in the Mediterranean

• Lunch with Mr. Energiewende: Rainer Baake is Back in Berlin

• Will Floating Turbines Usher in a New Wave of Offshore Wind?

• Will Floating Turbines Usher in a New Wave of Offshore Wind?

• Europe’s Morality Is Dying at the Greek Border

• Europe’s Morality Is Dying at the Greek Border

• Clean Energy by the People, for the People: The “energy rebels” of Schönau, Germany

• You Only Wish You Had Ukraine’s Democracy

• Fire at Sea

• The Green New Deal is Back

• These Parties Are Fighting for the Climate, Human Rights, and Immigrants—and They’re Winning

• Hungary Finally Has an Opposition Worth a Damn

• When History Lessons Aren’t Enough: NGO Aktion Courage

• The Great Drought of 2018: Germany’s endless summer

• Far-Right Playbook: The leftist 1960s student movement is the European far right’s best frenemy

• Donald Trump is dismantling the West

• The Next Merkel? Not Quite

• Carbon Crossroads: Can Germany Revive Its Stalled Energy Transition?

• Will Freiburg go even greener

• Norway’s stunning climate hypocrisy

• Review of ‘For a Left Populism,’

• The hard right is going for Europe’s jugular

• Populism’s Promise: Can Germany’s ‘Rise Up’ Unite the Democratic Masses?

• Last exit 1.5°C Is Angela Merkel paying attention?

• Urban mobility: Berlin’s mean

• Saving the Neighborhood: In the face of Berlin’s gentrification, tenants are asserting their rights

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• Europe needs a clean break from America on security

• Nord Stream 2 pipeline flies in the face of the Paris Accord

• Europe Has Criminalized Humanitarianism

• Review of Joschka Fischer’s The Decline of the West

• Europe is holding its breath as Merkel’s chancellorship hangs in the balance

• Merkeldämmerung: The Transatlantic Right Has Germany’s Chancellor in Its Sights

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• The Nazis Among Us: Fatih Akin’s powerful new film about Germany

• Germany’s Secret Labor Experiment

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• Review of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s

• End of the Road: Are Diesel Cars on the Way Out in Europe?

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• Hungary is a beacon to Europe’s populist strongmen

• Germany’s Post-Merkel Power Fraus

• How Angela Merkel is preparing Germany for her grand exit

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• Elitist arrogance in Brussels could tear the EU apart

• Anti-Semitism is still alive in Germany 70 years after the Holocaust

• Germany Doesn’t Have a Playbook for a Nazi-Sympathizing Opposition

• Farewell to the Berlin-Budapest night train: How the European sleeper service is dying

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• Why Germany’s Electoral Predicament Is a Unique Opportunity

• Germany Has Plunged Into Unprecedented Political Chaos

• Why anarchist Silvio Meier is mourned 25 years after his murder by neo-Nazis

• Poland and the Uncontrollable Fury of Europe’s Far Right

• Poland and the Uncontrollable Fury of Europe’s Far-Right

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• Wandel in der DDR: „Anarchie ist machbar, Herr Nachbar,“

• Saving the Neighborhood: Kotti & Co

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• The German Left Is Its Own Worst Enemy

• The Rise and Fall of Leftist Populism in Germany

• Angela Merkel’s legacy hinges on mending Europe

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• Nord Stream 2: a climate-busting cash cow

• Why Germany has a Dirty Climate Secret

• Who is the Leader of the Free World?

• At G20, All Eyes in Germany

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• Trump’s Foreign Policy is More than a Chaotic Mess

• Germany has an Arrogance Problem

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• Scholars in Exile

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• The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Get ready for robots and more inequality

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• Berlin’s Zero Hour is Angela Merkel’s Too

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• How the German people ushered in a green energy revolution

• A Guide to Getting a Bachelor’s Degree Abroad

• Iceland’s Radical Pirates Party Just Might Win the National Election

• Banker hinter Gitter, Piraten ins Parlament

• Das Gesicht der Piraten in Island: Eigensinnig und ganz weit vorne

• The Political Price of Merkel’s Refugee Policy

• he E.U. Is in Crisis. Two Economists Disagree on Why

• Axe-wielding Terrorist and Germany’s Stiff Upper Lippe

• Angela Merkel Doesn’t Have a Brexit Plan, Either

• Car giant Germany struggles to ignite Energiewende

• Putch with a Pretty Face

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• The role of biofuel and hydrogen in Germany’s transport Energiewende

• Bosnia’s Impaired Peace may Not Last

• Nothing Can Take Merkel Down–Except 800,000 Refugees

• VW Has Run Out of Ideas

• The Climate Wars are Coming — and More Refugees with them

• The Stunning Hypocracy of Mitteleuropa

• EU needs united response to refugee crisis

• What the US can learn from Germany’s Energiewende

• The Man Behind the Iron Chancellor

• Europe Needs a More Perfect Union

• The History of the Energiewende: The First Four Decades

• Baltic Russians Could be the Next Pawns in New Cold War

• Where the Energiewende Creates Jobs

• The Climate Wars are Upon Us

• Cold War 2.0 Bodes Ill for Europe

• Letter From Berlin: Why Are the Germans So Hellbent on Austerity?

• In Europe, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia Go Hand in Hand

• Europe Blows Away Wind Power Records

• Europe Considers Surveillance Expansion After Deadly Attacks

• Pegida Marches On

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• Germany’s Islamophobes: A social movement or flash mob?

• A Change Romania Can Believe In

• German Fossil Fuel Giant Jumps on Renewables Bandwagon

• Europe’s Burghers Need a Republic

• Energiewende Art? Energiewende Art!

• Homes for the Energiewende

• Brave little Denmark leads war against coal

• Energy transition becomes a tourist attraction

• WT.nav=bottom-well

• 8 Things that were Better in East Germany

• Differences Persist Between East and West Germany

• Zero Hour: The First Days of the New Berlin

• Germany’s Polite Populists

• Germany’s Small-Batch, Artisanal Energy

• German Experts Lock Horns over Storage

• The Case for a Europe of Regions

• Can Germany’s Energy Model Save the World?

• Is Distributed Energy Storage the Energiewende’s Missing Link?

• Will Europe go to war in Ukraine?

• Interview with German President Joachim Gauck on the film The Lives of Others

• Belarus’s University in Exile Looks to the West

• World War I Conference in Sarajevo Divides Scholars

• The West doesn’t need nuclear for energy independence

• Will the Curse of Oil Drag Down Vladimir Putin?

• German Energy Reforms Spell Trouble for Small Renewable-Energy Producers

• Rise of Anti-EU Parties Sounds Alarm for Brussels’ Future

• May 25 is a day of reckoning for all of Europe

• Merkel in the Middle

• Germany Taps Univesities in its Clean Energy Push

• The EU’s Success Story in Central Europe

• Break Russia’s Gas Stranglehold with Energy Efficiency

• Can Vladimir Putin Upend Democracy in Europe?

• Academic Values Often Give Way as Universities Expand Overseas Programs

• The Government Hungarians Deserve

• Springer Without Borders

• Little Lithuania Between Scylla and Charybdis: Who pays the highest price for gas in all of Europe?

• To Deal With Russia, Germany Needs Renewables

• Avoiding Srebrenica Redux: Twenty years ago, the United States and Europe failed the people of Bosnia. Here’s how they can do better this time in Ukraine

• Angie the Good Cop: Why Germany can’t afford to get tough on Russia

• Release of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ Reignites Debate Over Nazi Ideology

• Exposing a Corporate Trend in Higher Education in Germany

• Is the Western Balkans the new Desertec?

• A Scholar Is Back Home and Defiant in Hungary

• Robert Habeck: Germany’s First and Only Minister for the Energiewende

• Trend towards ‘Individual Jihad’ in Germany

• The steps ahead for Germany’s clean energy shift. Energiewende: from Wunderkind to Troubled Adolescent

• Power Hungry: Will Angela Merkel Complete Germany’s Energy Revolution?

• Angie the Revolutionary: How Angela Merkel is Changing Europe Forever

• In Germany’s election campaign, the Energiewende is a sideshow

• What an almost certain third term for Angela Merkel will mean for Europe and the eurozone

• The Good German: The VW Beetle’s astounding travels across a century

• Die Wende in Worte fassen: Wie erklären wir’s den Nachbarn? Neue Bücher zur Energiepolitik

• Stopped Cold, Mercedes Sales Blocked in France

• In Greece, ‘Academic Hostages’ Wait Years for Jobs

• Germany’s Halting Energiewende

• Energiehardliner in der Union stecken in der Vergangenheit fest: Merkels Sargnagel

• In War Time, “Adopt a Revolution” Plans for a Postwar Syria: A Berlin-based nonprofit supports Syrian civil society groups

• Liberal Theology Professor Faces Off Against Germany’s Conservative Muslims

• From Holland, Bright Ideas for Highways

• Where ‘Share the Road’ is Taken Literally

• Profile: Jochen Homann, Marathon Man for the Energiewende

• Germany’s Conservative Struggle with the Clean Energy Transition

• Merkels Sargnagel

• EU: Don’t Cut the Smart Grid Money!

• Solidarity Group in Berlin Urges Non-Violence in Syria

• High-Profile Plagiarism Cases Provoke Soul Searching in Germany

• Germany’s Energiewende: An Analyst Returns Fire in the War of Words

• Onshore Wind Drives Germany’s Renewables Revolution, but Is It Too Much of a Good Thing?

• Biofuels under Attack: Germany’s Best Practice Certification to the Rescue

• Boom Year 2012 Defies Nay-Sayers

• Germany’s Little Energy Co-ops Make a Big Splash

• Mit dem Rad in ein Roma-Slum: Aufgeklärter Armutsporno?

• Will Desertec ever move from Power Point to Power Plant?

• Can Europe Step up at Doha?

• Europe May be Hurting, But EU Studies is Going Strong

• Romani Studies, too is Thriving

• The Energiewende

• Germans and Central Europeans Lock Horns over Energy

• Postwar can be the Trickier Battle

• The Discreet Charm of Mr. Obama

• Ending Wars Well

• What Germany can learn from the Nordic Energiewende

• Germany’s Offshore Wind Industry Sees Sun Behind Clouds

• König der Drohnen

• Germany’s Renewable Energy Gamble

• The Obamians: How Hope and Change Got Sidelined

• Ein deuscher Sonderweg

• The Battle for the Arab Spring

• Bioenergy? Not So Fast

• Green Jobs Boom: Myth or Reality

• Defusing Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf

• Serbia’ Brokeback Mountain: Srdjan Dragojevic’s The Parade

• Free to Choose: Germans Remake Their Energy Market from Below

• Niebel’s Potholed Autobahn to Africa

• He’s Not Alone

• Germany’s Stalled Energy Transition

• Homegrown Power for Auto Plants

• Angst or Arithmetic: Why Germans are so Skeptical about Nuclear Power

• Can Germany Help Central Europe Confront its Dark Past?

• Nuclear Power? Germany Says ‘Nein Danke’

• Going Renewable: Germany’s Energy Revolution from the Inside Out

• GreenTech At Risk, the Core of a Car’s Identity

• The Merkelization of Europe

• Norbert Röttgen: Green-Tinted Conservative

• The Arab Revolution: “We have a lot to learn from them,”

• Why Europe’s beautiful project is in peril

• Aura der Unbesiegbarkeit ist futsch

• Heart of Dunkelheit: Germany’s Other Genocide

• An October Still with Us: The RAF Ten Years After 9/11

• Atomkraft? Nein danke!

• Europe’s Incentive Plans for Spurring E.V. Sales

• Germany’s Nuclear Endgame: The Lessons

• Angela Merkel: What Explains Her Unexpected Position on Libya?

• Educating Imams in Germany: The Battle for a European Islam

• Enzensberger on Europe

• On the March: Hungary’s Ascendant Right Wing

• Democrat Doctor: Portrait of Philipp Rösler

• Inside Hungary’s anti-Semitic Right-Wing

• The Arrest of Ratko Mladic: A Victory for the EU

• Central Europe’s Right-Wing Populism

• Fischer’s Red-Green Memoirs

• Europe’s Rising Islamophobia

• Green is the New Black

• The Resistible Rise of Viktor Orban

• Ein aufhaltbarer Aufstieg

• Uprising in German Catholic Church

• Thomas de Maiziere: Light-touch Sheriff

• German Catholics Turn Backs on Church

• Sonderschulen für Roma-Kinder

• Angela’s Ashes

• A radio feature for Deutsche Welle: Hungary’s shift to the right is bad news for the country’s Roma, Inside Europe

• A TV panel discussion on Afghanistan: A New Strategy for Afghanistan – An Unwinnable War?

• The Pope and the Chancellor

• Letter from Berlin: Twenty Years After

• Rethinking US-Europe Relations: Is the EU Better for Obama than NATO?