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Articles of the author Joschka Fischer
The Persian Knot
BERLIN: The negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany, over Iran's nuclear program are entering a new, and probably decisive, stage. The negotiations have been going on for almost a (...)

06 - 04 - 2012
Merkel's next crisis
BERLIN: With Europe bogged down by the financial crisis and its national governments failing or being voted out of office across the continent, Germany has looked like an island of prosperity and stability. Chancellor Angela Merkel has appeared to (...)

04 - 03 - 2012
The Chancellor who played with fire
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be happy nowadays: her party's approval ratings aren't bad, and her own are very good. She no longer has serious rivals within the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), while the left (...)

12 - 02 - 2012
Europeanizing Europe
BERLIN: The eurozone is at the center of the global financial crisis, because only there, in the realm of the second most important currency after the dollar, does the crisis hit a weak “structure” rather than a state with real power. It is a (...)

08 - 01 - 2012
Which new Middle East?
BERLIN: Regardless of whether democratization in the “new Middle East” succeeds or authoritarian forms of government prevail once again, one fundamental change has already become clear: no one will be able to govern without taking into account (...)

25 - 09 - 2011
Europe's shaky foundations
BERLIN: Slowly, word is getting round — even in Germany — that the financial crisis could destroy the European unification project in its entirety, because it demonstrates, quite relentlessly, the weaknesses of the eurozone and its construction. (...)

02 - 09 - 2011
Europe's sovereignty crisis
BERLIN: Finally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted a new form of European Union. More than ever, the EU must combine greater stability, financial transfers, and mutual solidarity if the entire European project is to be prevented from (...)

04 - 08 - 2011
A bomb in every reactor
BERLIN: Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the ongoing catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan has — it must be hoped — made clear once and for all that the purported blessings of the nuclear age are mere (...)

02 - 05 - 2011
The wrong German foreign policy
BERLIN: German chancellor Angela Merkel likes to navigate politically by line of sight – and a very short line of sight at that. But when fog clouds your visibility, you're not an instinctive driver (as seems to be the case here), and you have (...)

25 - 03 - 2011
The Middle East awakening
BERLIN: When the democratic revolt in Tunisia successfully ousted the old regime, the world reacted with amazement. Democracy from below in the Arab world? After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's 30 year-old regime in Egypt, the heartland of the (...)

27 - 02 - 2011
Exiting the Middle East labyrinth
BERLIN: Two years have passed since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. Much to his credit — and in contrast to his immediate predecessor — Obama tried, from his first day in office, to work towards a resolution of the conflict (...)

29 - 12 - 2010
Avanti Dilettanti!
BERLIN: Returning to Europe lately after a six-day trip to the United States, I wondered for the first time while reading the press on the recent Irish crisis whether the euro — and thus the European Union — might possibly fail. This could happen (...)

20 - 12 - 2010
Angela Merkel's fear of Europe
BERLIN: Ever since the global financial crisis erupted in September 2008, the European Union has been in turmoil. On the one hand, the euro protected the eurozone, particularly Germany's export economy, from speculative attacks and the chaos of (...)

02 - 11 - 2010
China as a superpower
YALTA: Given its rapid and successful development, there can be no doubt that the People's Republic of China will become one of the dominant global powers of the twenty-first century. Indeed, despite the massive problems that the country is (...)

08 - 10 - 2010
The risks of withdrawal
BERLIN: Entering a war is easy; getting out of it is the hard part. That axiom is particularly true for the United States today, as it muddles through three wars — two of which were forced upon it (Afghanistan and the “war on terror”), with the (...)

01 - 09 - 2010
Russia's great gas game
BERLIN: Russia and the European Union are geopolitical neighbors. Whether or not their relationship is in fact neighborly, rather than tense and confrontational, is of critical importance to both. Unless it modernizes its economy and society, (...)

27 - 07 - 2010
Who 'lost' Turkey?
BERLIN: Turkey's “no” last month (a vote cast together with Brazil) to the new sanctions against Iran approved in the United Nations Security Council dramatically reveals the full extent of the country's estrangement from the West. Are we, as many (...)

02 - 07 - 2010
Our Post-Modern Crisis
BERLIN: On the weekend of May 7-9, the European Union gazed into the abyss of historical failure. The fate of the euro was at stake and with it European unification as a whole. Not since before the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 had Europe (...)

02 - 06 - 2010
Obama and the Middle East
BERLIN: With the successful enactment of his health reform, Barack Obama has achieved his biggest domestic success so far — which, surprisingly, had greater consequences abroad than at home. The US President, whose hands had been tied in recent (...)

09 - 05 - 2010
Angela Bismarck Thatcher
BERLIN: The European Union's recent summit has brought about a typically European compromise on the Greek financial crisis, one that avoids the term "solution and hides behind the idea of a "mechanism. Whether it works will be seen this month, when (...)

06 - 04 - 2010
Ms. Europe or Frau Germania?
BERLIN: Just what is the matter with Angela Merkel? Only a short while ago, she was celebrated as "Ms. Europe ; now, she increasingly gives the impression of being Frau Germania. Instead of providing resolute leadership in the global financial and (...)

24 - 03 - 2010
Greek lessons for Europe
"It's when the tide goes out that you find out who has been swimming naked, the legendary investor Warren Buffet aptly remarked when the global economic crisis hit. And, as we have found out in the meantime, this is as true for countries as it is (...)

28 - 02 - 2010
Europe's Ukrainian Linchpin
BERLIN: Revolutions, it is said, almost always devour their children. Obviously, this is also true for the "color revolutions - first in Georgia, and now in Ukraine, where President Viktor Yushchenko, the hero of the "Orange Revolution in 2004, was (...)

10 - 02 - 2010
Twenty years after the Wall
BERLIN: Those who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened - the night the Wall came down. History in the making is all too often tragic. Only rarely is it capable of irony. November 9, (...)

03 - 11 - 2009
The Fight for Middle Germany
BERLIN: Germany has made its choice. It voted the grand coalition out of office with a bang, consigning the Social Democrats to the political abyss. Only ruins remain of the once-proud Gerhard Schröder's SPD. Despite a clear win for the (...)

11 - 10 - 2009
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