Germany: Merkel Pays High Price for Fourth Term – “This will not be long.”

Negotiators from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), their Bavarian partners, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) have agreed in principle on a deal for a new “grand coalition” government—one that, in fact, is the same as the one that governed prior to the last election in September 2017.

Erdogan: No Moderate Islam

Burak Bekdil

The Trump administration has two options: It can either deal with the Turkey it has or the Turkey it wished it had.

Germany: Spike in Stabbings

A recent surge in stabbings and knife-related violence across Germany is drawing renewed attention to the deteriorating security situation there since Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to allow in more than a million migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.