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Lisa Haseldine

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Will the EU ever get tough on defence?

Will the EU ever get tough on defence?
06.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Europe’s rearmament is off to a feeble start

Europe’s rearmament is off to a feeble start
05.03.2025 10

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Trump: To help Ukraine, Europe must help itself first

Trump: To help Ukraine, Europe must help itself first
28.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Merz is caught in a defence spending trap of his own making

Merz is caught in a defence spending trap of his own making
28.02.2025 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Friedrich Merz on track to win German federal election

Friedrich Merz on track to win German federal election
23.02.2025 2

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Lisa Haseldine

What to look out for in Germany’s federal election

What to look out for in Germany’s federal election
23.02.2025 30

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How far-right might Germany go?

How far-right might Germany go?
22.02.2025 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin is watching Trump attack Zelensky with glee

Putin is watching Trump attack Zelensky with glee
20.02.2025 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Weimar 2.0 / What the rise of the AfD means for Germany

Weimar 2.0 /					 													 						What the rise of the AfD means for Germany
20.02.2025 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Starmer backs Nato membership for Ukraine

14.02.2025 10

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Lisa Haseldine

The surprising fall of Germany’s populist far-left party

14.02.2025 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Car rams crowd in Munich, injuring at least 27

13.02.2025 5

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Lisa Haseldine

Trump says Ukraine peace negotiations could start ‘immediately’

12.02.2025 3

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Lisa Haseldine

Sour Krauts / Tomorrow belongs to the AfD

12.02.2025 3

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Lisa Haseldine

Sour Krauts / Tomorrow belongs to the AfD

12.02.2025 5

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Tomorrow belongs to the AfD

09.02.2025 50

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Friedrich Merz turns up the heat on Germany’s migration debate

30.01.2025 9

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Lisa Haseldine

Elon Musk addresses AfD rally

25.01.2025 5

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Lisa Haseldine

AfD on track to turn a third of Germany blue

17.01.2025 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin’s Azerbaijan air crash apology will have bruised his ego

Has Vladimir Putin been forced to eat humble pie? Earlier today, the Russian president felt compelled to issue an apology – of sorts – after an...

28.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Two dead after German Christmas market attack

Five days before Christmas, Germany has again been plunged into grief. Just after 7 p.m. local time yesterday in the city of Magdeburg,...

21.12.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Notes on... / What carols owe to Martin Luther

Lisa Haseldine has narrated this article for you to listen to. It’s 500 years since Martin Luther, along with the preacher Paul Speratus, put...

20.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Angela Merkel regrets nothing

Last night, nearly three years to the day since she handed over the reigns of power to Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel appeared at London’s Royal...

05.12.2024 20

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine will make the most of its new firepower

Overnight, the news of Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles on Russian soil has been sinking in. Reports suggest that Kyiv...

18.11.2024 3

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

War in Ukraine / One phone call won’t make Putin listen to Scholz

This afternoon, for the first time in nearly two years, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz picked up the phone to speak with Russian president...

15.11.2024 3

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine will be worried if Trump has called Putin

When Donald Trump won the US presidential election last Wednesday, one leader’s message of congratulation was conspicuously absent. It took the...

11.11.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Olaf Scholz calls time on Germany’s traffic light coalition

Just as Germany, along with the rest of Europe, begins to process what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean, more instability is...

07.11.2024 5

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Why is Putin not congratulating Donald Trump?

It’s long been assumed that Donald Trump is Russian president Vladimir Putin’s preferred opposite number in Washington. So it might come as a...

06.11.2024 1

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Russian spies are intent on wreaking havoc in Germany

If ever the West needed confirmation that we have become firmly entrenched in a new Cold War with Russia, this month’s warnings from intelligence...

16.10.2024 9

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Lisa Haseldine

Without Navalny, Russia’s opposition is tearing itself apart

Since the death of Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony in February, Russia’s opposition movement has found itself in disarray. Instead of...

08.10.2024 2

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Lisa Haseldine

How does the SPD solve a problem like Olaf Scholz?

Olaf Scholz can’t catch a break. The German chancellor started the week on a high after his SPD party won the state elections in Brandenburg by the...

28.09.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Germany / Olaf Scholz has won a hollow victory in Brandenburg’s state elections

In what will surely come as a relief to the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, his SPD party has won this weekend’s state elections in Brandenburg....

23.09.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Putin must not be allowed to win in Ukraine

‘Whatever happens, Vladimir Putin must not be allowed to win the war in Ukraine’. For the first time since being released from a Russian prison in...

20.09.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Why does Scholz want to speed up peace talks for Ukraine?

Is German chancellor Olaf Scholz giving in to pressure to reduce support for Ukraine and improve relations with Russia? Scholz declared during a...

09.09.2024 3

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Lisa Haseldine

The AfD is winning over Germany’s youth

‘We are the party of the youth!’ When the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party launched its state election campaign over the summer in...

02.09.2024 2

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Lisa Haseldine

The AfD is set to win its first ever state election

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland party is set to make history and take control of at least one of Germany’s state parliaments for the...

01.09.2024 3

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Lisa Haseldine

Is Germany’s far right about to go mainstream?

‘We need to deport, deport, deport!’ Björn Höcke, leader of the Alternative für Deutschland in Thuringia, emphasises each word with a clenched...

29.08.2024 9

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Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine’s drone attack on Moscow piles the pressure on Putin

In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine hit Moscow with ‘one of the largest’ drone attacks against the Russian capital since the war began two...

21.08.2024 1

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Lisa Haseldine

Russia’s escalation warnings over Kursk betray Putin’s panic

As Ukrainian forces continue to gain ground in the Russian region of Kursk, the humiliation for Vladimir Putin is growing. Faced with a mounting...

13.08.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine’s Kursk attack shows no signs of slowing down

It has been seven days since Ukraine began its attack on the Russian region of Kursk – with Ukrainian soldiers launching the first successful...

12.08.2024 2

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Lisa Haseldine

Russia / Ukraine’s Kursk offensive is a PR disaster for Putin

It’s four days into Ukraine’s surprise offensive in the Russian region of Kursk and Moscow is only just sending reinforcements to repel the...

09.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Russia and the West agree largest prisoner swap since the Cold War

The Kremlin has released Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former marine Paul Whelan and British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza...

01.08.2024 1

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Lisa Haseldine