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Katja Hoyer

Katja Hoyer

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Russia is failing to undermine German morale on Ukraine

The news that German police have arrested two alleged Russian spies in Bavaria has understandably raised some alarm bells in Berlin. The men stand...

19.04.2024 30

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Katja Hoyer

Germany’s Holocaust dilemma

‘In 2024, Jewish money is once again being confiscated by a German bank’. This is a headline that makes for uncomfortable reading in Berlin. It...

28.03.2024 8

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Katja Hoyer

How Germany became a security liability

There were lots of smiles and some awkward football banter when German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock met her British counterpart David Cameron in...

09.03.2024 5

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Katja Hoyer

What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west

The Berlin Wall “will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years”, Erich Honecker, the leader of socialist East Germany, prophesied in January 1989....

07.03.2024 20

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Germany’s anti-AfD marches are backfiring

The rise of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has set off one of the largest waves of protest in modern German history. Half-a-million or so...

07.02.2024 20

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Katja Hoyer

What a secret far-right meeting reveals about the AFD

It sounds like a scene from a dystopian TV drama: in a country hotel west of Berlin, far-right politicians met neo-Nazi activists and sympathetic...

11.01.2024 9

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Katja Hoyer

Can Scholz convince the EU to continue supporting Ukraine?

New Year’s resolutions are notoriously difficult to keep. But when it comes to Ukraine, Europe hasn’t made any. There is no clear plan for 2024 on...

10.01.2024 10

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Katja Hoyer

Why German farmers are taking on the ruling coalition

He wanted to get away from it all. The splendid solitude of the tiny North Sea island of Hooge was a momentary refuge from the waves of political...

07.01.2024 5

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Katja Hoyer

Germany / Can things get any worse for Olaf Scholz?

A ‘smurf’, a ‘plumber’, a ‘know-it-all’: Olaf Scholz has been called many things. But so far Germany’s chancellor has brushed off the...

30.12.2023 6

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Katja Hoyer

Germany’s Reichsbürger movement is anything but a joke

They don’t believe the German state exists, they make their own passports and they want the German monarchy restored. It’s tempting to dismiss the...

25.11.2023 8

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Katja Hoyer

Can Germany’s ‘Rwanda-style’ migrant plan keep the AfD at bay?

Germany is facing one of the greatest political upheavals in its modern history. Polls indicate that the ruling coalition would gain only a third of...

10.11.2023 10

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Katja Hoyer

Books / ‘The truth will make us free’: students on the march in post-war Europe

One night in early autumn 1982, two young men roamed the streets of Lodz in Poland. It was a dark period in the country’s history – one of many. A...

20.10.2023 9

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