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The UK electoral debate: Where is Europe?

As the UK prepares to go to the polls, candidates are all fired up in their campaigns leading up to the May 7th parliamentary elections. In the course of the electoral campaign, there are different TV debates on the agenda. The April 16th…

How Germany has overcome its past, 25 years on

“Jetzt wächst zusammen, was zusammen gehört.” – What belongs together is now growing together. This statement made by Germany’s former Chancellor Willy Brandt after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 symbolized the beginning of a…

British and German paths to possible growth

Both the United Kingdom and Germany seem to have overcome the economic crisis as growth is picking up again in both countries, yet with some reservations in the German case as recent figures show. Although in the UK the economy is still…