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The partnership at the center of European integration is unraveling just when Euroskeptic forces are coming together. If French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel cannot start rebuilding the political center, next year's European Parliament election will produce the biggest victory yet for anti-EU populists.… Entering the endgame?Project SyndicateThe Coming Franco-German Bust-Up Mark Leonard | Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations

In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer talks about the danger of war against Iran, the deterioration of trans-Atlantic relations under U.S. President Donald Trump and the serious need for Germany to invest massively in the European Union's future.  Spiegel Online'The U.S. President Is Destroying the American World Order'Interview former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer conducted by Mathieu von Rohr and Christoph Schult

More than 90 percent of Germans want better relations with Russia, while more than three-quarters think US President Donald Trump represents a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin, a new poll says.Painting Russia as a boogeyman and a threat to the West has been the narrative of both the mainstream media and a number of Western states for some time. Now, a poll conducted by the Forsa Institute on behalf of the Wiese Consult group has revealed a substantial difference between the...

Backgrounder on what's up in Deutschland.Sputnik InternationalLittle Trouble in Big Bundestag: Sputnik's Guide to Merkel's Coalition FiascoalsoStrategic Culture FoundationGermany"s Government Impasse: End of Merkel Era Is Within SightAlex Gorka