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Financial issues have brought down Germany’s ruling coalition, leading to early elections. What does this mean for the country and its aid to Ukraine?

By Dmitri Stratievski

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Foreign and security policy

New problems, old problems

Trump’s return to the White House signals a new chapter in US-Africa relations, fraught with both uncertainties but also potential opportunities

By Priyal Singh

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Democracy and society

Maternity by mandate

Faced with a sharp population decline, the Russian government is frantically seeking ways to push women into having more children

By Daria Boll-Palievskaya

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Foreign and security policy

The fairytale of re-nationalisation

In today’s increasingly complex world, multilateralism is more crucial than ever — the G20 should take the lead in driving it forward

By Markus Engels

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Interviews

‘Things are going to get uncomfortable’

Reinhard Krumm in Washington on media bubbles, the mood among Democrats and the consequences of a second Trump term for Europe

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Democracy and society

Lessons liberals won’t learn

The inability of liberals to understand Trump’s political appeal is itself part of the explanation for his historic, and entirely avoidable, comeback

By Bret Stephens

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Democracy and society

Understanding the 72 million

How did a convicted felon, who sought to overturn an election that he decisively lost just four years ago, win the votes of so many Americans?

By Nina L. Khrushcheva

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Interviews

‘The Moldovan people are definitely pro-European’

Ana Mihailov from Chisinau on Maia Sandu’s re-election as president and the search for common ground with the pro-Russian electorate